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jsilverberg wrote-
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| I am also trying to decipher what Cotter has to say in his "History
of
| Nautical Astronomy".  It seems to me that there are more than a few
| errors in this book and much that is incompletely explained, but
| perhaps I just haven't spent enough time studying it.

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response from George-

Cotter is a valuable resource. He had done a lot of reading of old
documents, and there is much stuff there you won't find elsewhere.

However, I think that in much of it he was quite out of his depth in
understanding what was going on. As a result, the book is riddled with
errors. Jan Kalivoda and I, with some help from Herbert Prinz, have
put together a list of known and suspected errors, comprising several
pages of text. I think it would help any owner of Cotter's book to
print it out, slip it between the pages, and mark the dodgy passages.

I am by no means confident that we have caught them all, and if anyone
discovers or suspects further errors, or thinks we have been mistaken
about any we report, I request to be informed.

The website listing the errors is at -

www.huxtable.u-net.com/cotter01.htm

George.

contact George Huxtable at george@huxtable.u-net.com
or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.


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