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Chauvenet's "Suggestions to US Naval Officers" (1868)

From: Frank Reed (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 06 2004 - 18:06:32 EDT

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    I've assembled a web page for viewing the article by Chauvenet which George
    Huxtable found and scanned. The scans have been cleaned up, split into separate
    pages, rotated where necessary, and reduced in file size. Enjoy!

    The Chauvenet article:
    http://www.HistoricalAtlas.com/chauvenet

    And as a reminder, I've created similar viewers for two other articles in the
    history of navigation.

    Mendoza Rios's important paper on latitude by double altitudes and longitude
    by lunar distances from 1796:
    http://www.HistoricalAtlas.com/myr
    (this article is mostly math, and it's in French)

    Maskelyne's 1764 article on lunar distances describing his method for
    clearing the distance and also some calculations which may prove useful in the
    creation of a nautical almanac (a project which Maskelyne began shortly after):
    http://www.HistoricalAtlas.com/maskelyne

    Frank R
    [ ] Mystic, Connecticut
    [X] Chicago, Illinois

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