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From: Frank Reed
Date: 2013 Jan 3, 14:26 -0800
Bill Morris wrote:
"Beaglehole does the work of assessing lunars for us by inserting footnotes giving the modern positions of places when Cook's journal entry gives a position fixed by lunars or "the watch"."
Certainly an excellent place to start. And although I know this is obvious to practically everyone, it would be a mistake to consider these results "definitive". I would encourage anyone interested in this topic to determine both the calculated positions and the described positions from scratch, as much as possible, just as John Huth's student did.
-FER
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