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Joel Jacobs wrote:
> Thank you for your long and detailed explanation which I am way too
> old to have any interest in [... cutting the rest of the rhetorics ...
> ] I would like you to point me to some books on navigation that
> substantiate your group's points of view since many of us learned our
> navigation, not as academicians, but as seamen.
How about Chauvenet, A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy,
Philadelphia, 1863, Vol 2. Ch.4, Item 91, p103-104, for starters. This
must have been fresh out of the printing press when you were young.
By the way, I am deeply embarrassed to find out that in my last post I
was only regurgitating what others have already elaborated in great
detail. When I just read in Chauvenet, loc. cit. about the navigator
"turning on his heel" (when swinging the arc) it rang a bell. Sure
enough, on searching the list archives I find that Alexander Eremenko
has posted a text by Maskelyne that says the same thing, and provided an
analysis. Also Frank Reed has criticized Bauer in nearly the same words
that I used, picking on the same passage. Apologies to all, sometimes
it's difficult to remember what has been discussed on which forum. I
withdraw from this discussion because everything that can be said is
already in the archives.
Herbert Prinz
