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Re: Snellius Construction questions
From: Jim Martin
Date: 2009 Jan 7, 16:45 -0800
From: Jim Martin
Date: 2009 Jan 7, 16:45 -0800
Lecky's Wrinkles, has a detailed explaination of this problem,under the heading,"The Station Pointer"chapter X1, Jim M. Jan 6, 6:43�am,wrote: > I have found an intriguing example of triangulation from a 16th century mathematician, Willebrord Snellius(http://www.sailingissues.com/navcourse4.html). I have searched other web sources on the web and so far, have had no success in finding a straight forward explanation of how this method of triangulation works. Have any of you actually used the "Snellius Construction" technique, and could you help me understand it as a practical navigation application? > > Thank you, > > Todd Frye > > ----------------------------------------------- > [Sent from archive by: fryefamily-AT-sisna.com] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---