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Re: Timing Lunars with a Rock
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Jul 20, 02:06 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Jul 20, 02:06 -0500
> Go here: http://www.hti.umich.edu/ and click the "Making of America" > collection. Enter "lunars" as a search term. > You'll find all sorts of references > including the tale of Livingstone's > last travels and also a complete online > edition of Chauvenet's "Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy". That's a very valuable addition to the electronic resources on the web. Unfortunately, they do not let you download (and print) the whole book, one can only read or print one page at a time:-( Which decreases substantially the usefulness of such "digitalization". A