Talk:Eight Bells (painting)
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Artistic licence?
In reality, both observers would have had their sextants to their eyes - Maybe. Maybe one of them is having trouble with his. "where has my vernier scale gone?" he might be saying. or "Oh crap, I've dropped the captain's sextant, I hope it's not broken". --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 11:15, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
File:WinslowHomer-Eight Bells 1886.jpg to appear as POTD soon
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$400
Why is that low "$400 (approximately $10,000 today)"? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 01:47, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Possible copyvio
This page http://www.winslowhomer.org/eight-bells.jsp has very similar text, does not acknowledge Wikipedia and says it is copyright all rights reserved. Looks like they copied it? Billlion (talk) 21:12, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Way back Machine has the text the same from Jan 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120108235919/http://www.winslowhomer.org/eight-bells.jsp, whereas this article has substantially the same text before that. Looks like they copied Wikipedia? Billlion (talk) 21:15, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Details of noon sight
Following a discussion on NavList http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Wikipedia-article-Winslow-Homers-Eight-Bells-FrankReed-apr-2019-g44746 initiated by Frank Reed, I edited out the claim for artistic license and the incorrect description of rocking. As well as being speculative it constitutes
- Just to note these parts were added by anonymous editor (ip address), otherwise I would reach out to them on their talk page. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eight_Bells_%28painting%29&type=revision&diff=384689677&oldid=384633208 Billlion (talk) 07:41, 10 April 2019 (UTC)