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Ken M wrote:
"If anyone knows of an example of an explorer retrospectively correcting
their longitudes, I too would like to hear about it."
Matthew Flinders who did lunars while mapping parts of Australia in the
first few years of the 19th century. I posted about this for the list just a few
weeks ago...
Here's the web site with the transcripts and scans of the original:
http://image.sl.nsw.gov.au/Ebind/s1_59/a083/a083000.html
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
