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From: Geoff Butt (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 15 2004 - 00:18:01 EDT
I have always thought of Maskelyne as a giant of a man. Devising and
organising the calculation by hand of the Nautical Almanac to be a usable
tool for navigators seems to me a supreme achievement.
He produced and made available to all a working device. For all Harrison's
genius it took others to make chronometers equally available to all.
Geoff Butt
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