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From: Jan Kalivoda (no email)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2006 - 06:12:46 EDT
Hello, all,
Thanks to Rob van Gent from the Hastro mail list, I found the link:
http://trials.galegroup.com/nlw2006/history.html
or maybe closer to the source:
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO;jsessionid=A5B58FB55FB637733D4FAF07BA081687?locID=nlw2006
You can download whole trucks of the old English navigational literature
from the 18th century there - in batches of 50 PDF-pages. I have gained all
Maskelyne's texts in this way, Robertson's, Moore's, Collier's, Kelly's
navigation manuals, Shepherd's lunar inspection tables from 1772 (1117
pages, I saw this title physically for the first time in my life), Nautical
Almanacs for 1769,1772,1774,1787 and more.
I make the appeal to George Huxtable - what report on Cook's voyages is the
most interesting for us archeonavigators? There are some eight titles on
Cook's voyages on the site.
Can somebody propose some other titles that can be interesting for this mail
list? Let us draw water from the well, until id dries - I heard that this
possibility of downloading shall end on the 30th April, although there is no
such remark on the pages themselves.
Jan Kalivoda
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