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Re: accuracy of Cook's lunars
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2013 Jan 7, 00:15 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2013 Jan 7, 00:15 -0500
John, I have a general question about your student's methodology: Most (if not all) of those observations were made at sea. For example "Cape Finisterre" means that the ship was somewhere near this cape, and that the cape was probably visible. However, I suppose that Cook's coordinates refer to the position of the ship, not of the cape. And if they give the position of the cape, what point on the cape and how could this point be determined by Cook? Did the student compare Cook's recorded position with the position of some point on the cape from Google maps? Alex. > Here's what the student related to me about her methodology: