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Re: Sun Moon Lunars to 155 degrees
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2010 Apr 2, 11:16 +0100
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2010 Apr 2, 11:16 +0100
Dave Walden pointed us to The original astronomical observations made in the course of a voyage to the Northern Pacific Ocean, for the discovery of a North East or North West passage [electronic resource] : wherein the north west coast of America and north east coast of Asia were explored in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years MDCCLXXVI, MDCCLXXVII, MDCCLXXVIII, MDCCLXXIX, and MDCCLXXX (1999) Author: Bayly, William, 1737-1810; Cook, James, 1728-1779; King, James, 1750-1784 http://ia311026.us.archive.org/2/items/cihm_17414/cihm_17414.pdf ======================== That is the same book, describing the astronomy of Cook's third voyage, for which Wolfgang provided another link a few days ago, writing- you can read the book page by page here: http://www.canadiana.org/view/17414/0003 and there is a complete download (26 MB) here: http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_17414 That version, supplied by the Canadians, seems to have been somewhat better digitised, from a better original. I will mention the information available on page 43 of that text, in another message ========================= What we're particularly looking out for, but haven't found yet, is a publicly available digitised version of the second voyage, for which at present we have only just one tantalising page (174), so far. George. contact George Huxtable, at george@hux.me.uk or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222) or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
