Re: anachronisms?

Dr J R Stockton <jrs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

>In rec.arts.sf.science message <MPG.21f47b66805150ba98973b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Sun,
>13 Jan 2008 19:48:31, bernardZ <BernardZ@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> posted:
>>
>>In the days of sailing ****ps to navigate you used dead reckoning. It was
>>accurate.

>Rubbish.  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudesley_Shovell>.

	Well, okay, so they didn't have the longitude right, they didn't 
have the latitude right, the islands weren't mapped right, and the 
comp***** were absurdly defective and almost never would two agree on 
what direction was what.  Does that necessarily make a navigation method 
'inaccurate'?  

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								Joseph Nebus
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