Talk:Navy Department Library

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"Another item is Captain John Smith’s treatise on the duties of sailing men, called An Accidence or Path-way to Experience. Smith, the governor of Virginia who married the Indian princess Pocahontas, wrote this precursor to The Bluejacket's Manual in 1626."

A) Smith was never the governor of Virginia, B) Pocahontas married John Rofle, and C) Making the leap a 1626 book for civilian merchant sailors and the Bluejacket's Manual, which was written close to 300 years later, is a leap the size of the Grand Canyon. (19:06, 29 June 2016 (UTC))


 * A) Please sign your posts with four tildes. B) Your first two points seem to be correct, but the errors are in the source of the statement. I've notified their webmaster and asked him to fix it. We will see what happens. Lou Sander (talk) 21:20, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

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"On March 31, 1800, President John Adams wrote to Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert directing him to establish a library of "the best writing...on the theory and practice of naval architecture, navigation, gunnery, hydraulics, hydrostatics, and all branches of mathematics subservient to the profession of the sea.""

a) have removed the direct quote from page and added more information about the works. the "library history" page from that source had a lot more information than the simplified/shortened quote. --Herbiederby (talk) 18:05, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

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