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“Whenever I meet in Laplace with the words 'Thus it plainly appears', I am sure that hours and perhaps days, of hard study will alone enable me to discover how it plainly appears.”
Nathaniel Bowditch
“is measured; thus, the departure between the meridians of T and T' is the number of miles corresponding to the distance Tn in”
Nathaniel Bowditch, American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy

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