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Re: William Bligh's navigation and mapping
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2016 Aug 11, 22:21 -0400
Don Seltzer
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2016 Aug 11, 22:21 -0400
I found online the 1791 ninth edition of Moore's Practical Navigator and have attached a relevant page.
Bligh would have had the eighth edition; I don't know how complete a table would have been included.Don Seltzer
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Brad Morris <NoReply_Morris@fer3.com> wrote:
Re: Moore's Practical Navigatorr
Many sailing directions and nautical tomes from the era had a list of important ports and their coordinates. Bligh's purported memory may have been nothing more than a table lookup
On Aug 10, 2016 9:35 PM, "Don Seltzer" <NoReply_Seltzer@fer3.com> wrote:After his return to England, Bligh was less than candid about a few details. He had a Ramsden sextant and Mr Fryer a sextant. They also had a watch and a copy of Moore's Practical Navigator.
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