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Re: What were the Lunar Distances for?
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2002 Dec 27, 15:54 -0500
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2002 Dec 27, 15:54 -0500
An interesting and terribly appropriate comment here, George. I can't help but wonder if the newfangled, expensive, tempermental chronometers touched off a debate as to the pluses and minuses of traditional/vs/new nagivation tools back then, similar to sextant/vs/electronics today.