Re: anachronisms?

In rec.arts.sf.science message <MPG.21f47b66805150ba98973b@news>, Sun,
13 Jan 2008 19:48:31, bernardZ <BernardZ@xxxxxxxxxx> posted:

In the days of sailing ships to navigate you used dead reckoning. It was
accurate.

Rubbish. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudesley_Shovell>.

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