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That is a damn fine title page.
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That is a damn fine title page.
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The internet archive has a scan of the Bowditch's New American Practical Navigator 1802 edition, in case your copy is too new https://archive.org/details/newamericanpract00bowd/page/n7/mode/2up
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G gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org shared this topic on
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As an example of the "many thousand errors corrected", Bowditch points out that other authors treated 1800 as a leap year, leading to 23 mile lattitude errors that caused the loss of two vessels near Turk's Island.
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"Georgium Sidus" is an odd way to spell "Uranus"
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@th And the Galilean moons were originally the "Medician stars". Even scientists love to suck up to power. =\
