What Bellinghausen wanted to do was very straightforward. It didn't work out that way. And he did not try again. And nobody followed up with a "cleaner" version of his voyage.
What good is his mission now-- to my mission of proving the distance around the "bottom" of the world- the coast line of Antarctica? None. Oh, I'm sure I could work with the subtractions and additions, the adjustments and fine tune it... but by the time I've done all that, I've lost interest.
Why can't anyone simply sail around Antarctica in a straightforward verifiable way (for their era). The lack of a clear circumnavigation in history is not proof of a flat earth-- it only proves that there's a lack of proof.
Here is the route and the detour Bellinghausen took.
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ReplyDeleteI mean not educated in any further these fields but thought occurred to me that maybe the approximate size of the firmament by using a sexton for the highest and lowest stars....I don't know just thinking
ReplyDeleteI've never thought about sextants or astronavigation-- although since we're looking at Bellinghausen here, maybe I should. Here's a brief description of a sextant... for readers...
ReplyDeletehe Principle of the Sextant
The optical principle used in a sextant is this: given that a ray of light is reflected from two mirrors in succession, then the angle between the first and last direction of the ray is twice the angle between the mirrors.
This is the angle that is read off on the ‘arc’ after the navigator ‘shoots a star’ (takes an altitude).
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So altitude indeed has something to do with navigation using a sextant-- you might be onto something. I'll think more on this in coming weeks and post my results back in this thread. Thanks for the visit.
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