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George H, you wrote:
"Yes, a "makeshift Royal Observatory", in Frank's words, could have been
useful for Baffin's mapping, but the time wasn't ripe for it then."
Yes, alas that's true. I was thinking more in terms of a "what if" here,
George. IF European astronomy had devoted more effort to precision naked eye
observatories, then the idea of observing simultaneous with exploration voyages
might have seemed more obvious. It would have worked much better than
comparing with the relatively poor ephemeris calculations available at that date.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
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