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Re: The late B.R. Bowring Anonymous Sender 01-20-2008
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Posted by Anonymous Sender on January 20, 2008, 4:35 pm
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On Jan 20 Victor Fraenckel wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
>> While browsing through "Survey Review"'s online content, I came
>> across April 2007's contents, which included
>
>>> Obituary: B.R. Bowring.
>>> 177-177
>
>> Anyone know anything more? Any local obit (I believe he was
>> living in the UK)?
>> He was well known within the geodesy/surveying ranks.
>
> Anonymous,
>
> I browsed the indexes of the "Survey Review". I have long wanted to have
> a collection of the works of T. Vincenty and saw that many of his papers
> were included. Is there any place that the actual articles, as opposed
> to just the abstracts, of the SR are posted?
>
> Any enlightenment will be appreciated!
>
> Vic
> victorf ATSIGN windreader DOT com

AFAIK the only article of his "released" into the public
domain is his most famous one, "Direct and Inverse solutions of geodesics on the
ellipsoid...",

http://www.geodesy.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/inverse.pdf

















Posted by Victor Fraenckel on January 20, 2008, 9:44 pm
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Anonymous Sender wrote:
> On Jan 20 Victor Fraenckel wrote:
>> Anonymous wrote:
>>> While browsing through "Survey Review"'s online content, I came
>>> across April 2007's contents, which included
>>>> Obituary: B.R. Bowring.
>>>> 177-177
>>> Anyone know anything more? Any local obit (I believe he was
>>> living in the UK)?
>>> He was well known within the geodesy/surveying ranks.
>> Anonymous,
>>
>> I browsed the indexes of the "Survey Review". I have long wanted to have
>> a collection of the works of T. Vincenty and saw that many of his papers
>> were included. Is there any place that the actual articles, as opposed
>> to just the abstracts, of the SR are posted?
>>
>> Any enlightenment will be appreciated!
>>
>> Vic
>> victorf ATSIGN windreader DOT com
>
> AFAIK the only article of his "released" into the public
> domain is his most famous one, "Direct and Inverse solutions of geodesics on
the ellipsoid...",
>
> http://www.geodesy.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/inverse.pdf
>

Thanks for the response.

That's the only one I have. I certainly would like to get hold of the
others. Any ideas where???


Vic
victorf ATSIGN windreader DOT com

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