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Bowditch on solving Lunar Distances
Document Type: Photo/Image
Geographic Location: Washington, D.C.
ID Number: Bowditch_1969_Lunars
Keywords: Navigation, Lunar Distances
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Description:
Lunar distances was a complex but important means of determining longitude at sea. Bowditch was important in navigational history in part because he came up with easier methods for solving lunar distance sight reductions.
This passage is from Bowditch's New American Practical Navigator, 1868, p. 231.
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