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Re: Sight Reduction by the Cosine Haversine Method
From: Chuck Taylor
Date: 2004 Oct 6, 13:48 -0700

--- Herbert Prinz  wrote:

> Can someone tell us who coined the name "haversine"?

Not with any authority, but I found the following
citation:

 "haversine", Oxford English Dictionary. Cites coinage
by Prof. Jas. Inman, D. D., in his Navigation and
Nautical Astronomy, 3rd ed. (1835).

at

http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Versed_sine

I am grateful to Herbert Prinz for his informative
posting about the history of versed sines and
haversines.

Best regards to all,

Chuck Taylor
North of Seattle




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