On 1/24/12 9:46 AM, Attila Kinali wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:05:58 -0600
"Lee Mushel"<[email protected]> 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!
If you have a few references on books to read, you shouldn't keep them
for yourself ;-)
Dava Sobel's book is good.
The Great Arc by John Keay also has useful information on this kind of
thing.
the Institute of Navigation (ION) has an $50 CDROM of almost 300
celestial navigation papers (http://www.ion.org/shopping/begin.cfm look
down at the bottom) Lots about timekeeping, etc. in there.
(got that one loaded on the iPad for long plane trips)
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