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Forum: Navigation 22-01-2019, 18:58
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Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Mistake in Bowditch!

You can overthink this stuff....

Maybe you should have a chat with Edmund Gunter or Willebrord Snellius and try and sort it out with them ... but they are both dead....
Forum: Navigation 22-01-2019, 15:17
Replies: 28
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Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Mistake in Bowditch!

'Knots per hour' is not bastardized usage.... it is archaic usage.

When in quite common use it simply relied on 'knot' = 'mile' rather the modern usage where 'knot' = 'mile per hour'.
Forum: Navigation 21-01-2019, 18:45
Replies: 28
Views: 2,364
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Mistake in Bowditch!

How old is the edition? EDIT... just noted ..1926

There was a time when 'knots per hour' was in fairly common usage...

… the ship went ten knots an hour with a prodigious sea....
— Admiral...
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