I've read the book by Dava Sobel "Longitude"... not technical but interesting for me.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Lee Mushel <herbe...@centurytel.net> wrote: > If you're looking for a really interesting topic to read about, the > development of an accurate ship-board clock is really fascinating! And it > wasn't done overnight! > > Lee K9WRU > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Albertson" < > albertson.ch...@gmail.com> > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" < > time-nuts@febo.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:36 AM > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] establishing your position w/o gps > > > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Attila Kinali <att...@kinali.ch> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:04:08 +0000 >>> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >>> >>> In message >>> <20120124115848.**312d60bd4fccce4f3e71c136@**kinali.ch<20120124115848.312d60bd4fccce4f3e71c...@kinali.ch>>, >>>> Attila Kinali w >>>> rites: >>>> >>>> >All this talk about telling the time using stars or the sun made me >>>> >wonder >>>> >how did people tell what position their telescopes had back in the days >>>> >before GPS? >>>> >>> >> Sailingships and trade was what pushed this. >> > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
