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DURING the last two years a movement has been set on foot, which seems likely to be attended by somewhat important results in the simplification of the formulæ of astronomical navigation for every-day use. Any one who has looked even cursorily into a text-book of navigation of the Raper type, can hardly fail to have been impressed by the multiplicity and variety of the precepts, and can easily understand how complicated the various rules must appear to the unlearned men, upon whom, for the most part, the daily routine of practical navigation at sea must devolve.
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G., H. A Proposed Revolution in Nautical Astronomy. Nature 58, 10–12 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058010a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/058010a0