Re: 16th century navigating/surveying

1999-08-04 Thread Fernando Cabral
John Pickard wrote: Fernando, RIGHT ON! Thank you John. Your terse comment make me feel good even though I know it is more a fruit of your generosity than result of any useful job I did. - fernando John Dr John Pickard Senior Lecturer, Environmental Planning Graduate School of

Re: 16th century navigating/surveying

1999-08-03 Thread Fernando Cabral
Jim Morrison wrote: The attempt by the Spaniards to find the longitude of Mexico City was done on September 26/27, 1577. Observers in Madrid and Mexico City both observed the end of a total lunar eclipse. The value they came up with was 94.5 degrees longitude difference between Madrid and