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I am very glad that the name of Ptolemy was finally mentioned
in this discussion:-)
After all, his two books were the basis of all European navigation
for about 1400 years. I never had the impression that this
list is restricted to "present-day" navigation problems:-)
Alex.
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, George Huxtable wrote:
> I was responsible for diverting this discussion into Ptolemy's grasp of
> trig. around AD 150. So apologies to anyone who is outraged by taking
> matters so far away from the practical problems of navigation.
>
> Herbert Prinz responded.
>
> >Trying hard to give the appearance that what
> >we are discussing here has
> >anything
> >to do with navigation,
