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Re: How good were chronometers?

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Date: Wed Mar 15 2006 - 08:38:19 EST

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    Frank,
      You wrote:

    > Stars, including Polaris, were rarely used in celestial navigation
    > before the 20th century except occasionally for lunar distance
    sights.

    I seem to recall reading in a number of places that they were especialy on
    land.
    Hard to say what is right when you here so many different things!

                                                   Thanks,
                                                      Greg

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