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Re: making your own almanac
From: Wolfgang K�berer
Date: 2007 Jan 14, 09:41 +0100
From: Wolfgang K�berer
Date: 2007 Jan 14, 09:41 +0100
You can find it on the "Gallica" website of the Biblioth�que Nationale in Paris (http://gallica.bnf.fr/). Go to "Recherche" and just enter "Royal society" under "Auteur"; you should then see a list, among the things listed the "Philosophical transactions". You can then choose 1797 and there it is. There are more things of interest to the history of navigation (and astronomy) on this site - among them 2 french editions of Pedro de Medina and 3 editions of Jean Alfonce, probably the first french navigation manual - based mostly on portuguese material. Best regards, Wolfgang K�berer -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com]Im Auftrag von jsilverberg@rwu.edu Gesendet: Samstag, 13. Januar 2007 22:46 Betreff: [NavList 2062] Re: making your own almanac I am slowly translating de Mendoza y Rios' 1797 presentation to the Royal Society on lunars and it has been helpful. I found a web site which linked to another site which gave a complete (100 pages or so) scanned image of the presentation as reported in the Philosophical Transactions. Fortunately I printed out a paper copy of the entire presentation [although I could only get it one page at a time], because I can not remember where I found this site and have been uable to locate it again using Google, etc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
