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Government approved nautical almanac with tables of computed lunar distances. Early use of computational static tables for assigning a latitude and longitude to a world in process. Used with a sextant (from 19thC rated at Bidston), quadrant and navigational tables. Often used together with Chronometer and Dead Reckoning.
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