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According to the obituary of Donald Sadler, who was director of the Nautical
Almanac office in the UK at the time of the almanac's bicentenary in 1967,
there was once an exhibit known affectionately as a "sadlerium". As reported
in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Sadler "developed
the concept of a hands-on exhibit (sometimes refered to as the 'sadlerium') to
illustrate the taking of a lunar distance, but the realization by the
National Maritime Museum did not stand up to the hard use that it was given." Sounds
like it broke. Did anyone see it when it was a functioning exhibit at the
NMM?
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
