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Re: Traditional Chinese navigation
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes
Date: 2002 Dec 26, 17:17 -0500
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes
Date: 2002 Dec 26, 17:17 -0500
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:57:52 +1100, Peter Fogg wrote: > >Somewhere else I found mention of a 'sextant'. This is more than >intriguing, but I don't know any more. It seems unlikely that any >machine that did this job would use such crude notation as finger >widths. > Intriguing, but probably a mistranslation of something for which we have no word, or for which the translator didn't know the word. Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a Smoking in a bar is like peeing in a punchbowl
