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Re: What were the Lunar Distances for?

Subject: Re: What were the Lunar Distances for?
From: Jared Sherman (jared.sherman@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Dec 27 2002 - 15:54:54 EST

<When chronometers became available, and affordable, things got better.>
 An interesting and terribly appropriate comment here, George.

I can't help but wonder if the newfangled, expensive, tempermental chronometers touched off a debate as to the pluses and minuses of traditional/vs/new nagivation tools back then, similar to sextant/vs/electronics today.<G>



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