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Jan K wrote:
" He published the paper "Recherches sur les principaux problemes de
l'Astronomie Nautique" in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for
1797, where he summed up 40 direct methods of lunars and investigated many
indirect methods. "
Would anyone like me to post this paper online (not to the list)? It's great
fun, but monoglots beware --it's in French. I posted a link to this paper in
August, but it is only intermittently available so if anyone says yes, I will
put it up on my web site.
And:
"Of course, Arnold improved Mendoza's method essentially. George's recent
posting explains this fact thoroughly."
Yes, just bear in mind that these improvements (and others) were already
incorporated into Bowditch's main method which was publised well before Arnold's
work.
Frank R
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