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I have to apologise to Frank Reed here (not for the first time). Almost
everything I need to know about Mendoza's method is covered in his various
postings on lunars over recent months. I should have scanned those postings
first.
Frank wrote-
>Here is a link to the digital collection:
>http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/initiative/MsList.cfm
>
>Scroll down the list to "N". You will find "New and Complete Epitome of
>Navigation" by Norie, J.W. 1828. Follow the link. Then scroll down to
>"Tables". All
>of the tables are lumped together. Table XXXV starts on page 224.
The digitised library information at Mystic Seaport offers all sorts of
goodies: very tempting. I have tried getting access to the 1828 Norie's,
but with some difficulties, probably related to the antiquity of my Mac,
which runs Internet Explorer 4.0 (and isn't upgradeable). I keep getting
warnings of "scripting errors", which I choose to override, and in the end
had a couple of system crashes.
What was bugging me most was this. I had found my way into Norie's and
could display a choice of pages 1 to 8 from the preface, but what I wanted
to do was to get into other parts of the volume, in particular to page 224
of the tables, as Frank suggested. However, I couldn't discover how to
escape from the preface section. No doubt to others it would be blindingly
obvious, but web-navigation is a form of navigation at which I am highly
inexpert. So, after a bit of floundering about, the second crash occurred
and I decided that it was time to go to bed. What was I doing wrong? Any
clues?
George.
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