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> Go here: http://www.hti.umich.edu/ and click the "Making of America"
> collection. Enter "lunars" as a search term.
> You'll find all sorts of references
> including the tale of Livingstone's
> last travels and also a complete online
> edition of Chauvenet's "Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy".
That's a very valuable addition to the electronic resources on the web.
Unfortunately, they do not let you download (and print) the whole
book, one can only read or print one page at a time:-(
Which decreases substantially the usefulness of such
"digitalization".
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