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A few days ago Bruce S wrote:
[the Mendo Rios method is] "similar to Bowditch's original method, before
that was improved by special tables, and looks to me to be a simplification and
improvement of it. "
Isn't that backwards? The method of Mendoza Rios came first. Moore included
it in his navigation manual as the "First Method", and Bowditch "inherited" it,
to put it politely. He later modified it slightly, but it's fundamentally
still Don Jose's.
Frank R
[ ] Mystic, Connecticut
[X] Chicago, Illinois
