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Re: accuracy of Cook's lunars
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2013 Jan 7, 14:19 -0800
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2013 Jan 7, 14:19 -0800
This is an evidence that the quality of the best instruments did not improve
since the times of Cook. I mean their accuracy in experienced hands.
I am not sure about Bligh, but Cook's longitude is obtained after
very many careful observations from land.
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