During writing the rough draft, typing the manuscript, typesetting, copyediting, correction of galley proofs, correction of page proofs, there is considerable scope for the introduction of errors. Here some that have been found since publication. Errors detected after September 10th 1999 are reported in: Further errors in all printings
Many, but not all, of the corrections listed below have been made in
the second printing.
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and to Dr. Anna Adinolfi and the Superintendent of
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p35 Table 2.4 The names given as those of Chinese authors are in reality the names of Chinese calendars
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p36 Figure 2.6
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The number 819
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This should be: o o
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The number 72,063
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Lagrange was one of the most noted mathematicians and
astronomers of his time, if not of all time, who had made important
contributions to the theory of planetary dynamics.
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Lagrange, who had made important contributions to the
theory of planetary dynamics, was one of the most noted mathematicians
and astronomers of his time, if not of all time.
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Table 21.2 line 5Both Woden or Odin and Mercury were responsible for conducting the souls of fallen warriors to their new dwellings
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P = 1992 + 1992/4 - 1992/100 + 1992/400 -1
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Dennis knew that there was a new moon on 23rd March 323 AD and he
also believed (wrongly) that there was an equinox on
the same day. This coincidence seemed a good reason to
assign this year to the first of a Metonic cycle.
He then worked out from this assumption that the first new moon of
325 AD fell on January 1st which by a happy coincidence
was the year of the Council of Nicaea. Finally
he calculated that 1 BC, the year he had decided was that of the Nativity,
was also the first year of a cycle.
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This, it may be calculated, ensures that a new moon fell on March
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Council of Nicaea. The reasons for this apparently arbitrary
choice for the start of the 19 year cycles has been explained above.
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The formula on this line should read:
29.5305888531 + 0.00000021621T - 3.64 x 10-10 T2
p389 Table 1.1 The values in this table should be:
4000 B.C. 29.53057457 29d
12h 44m 1.64s
3000 B.C. 29.53057714 29d
12h 44m 1.86s
2000 B.C. 29.53057962 29d
12h 44m 2.08s
1000 B.C. 29.53058204 29d
12h 44m 2.29s
1 A.D. 29.53058439 29d
12h 44m 2.49s
1000 A.D. 29.53058665 29d
12h 44m 2.69s
2000 A.D. 29.53058885 29d
12h 44m 2.88s
p390 Table 1.2 The values in this table should be:
4000 B.C. 365.2424992 365d
5h 49m 11.93s
3000 B.C. 365.2424625 365d
5h 49m 8.76s
2000 B.C. 365.2424177 365d
5h 49m 4.89s
1000 B.C. 365.2423664 365d
5h 49m 0.46s
1 A.D. 365.2423103 365d
5h 48m 55.61s
1000 A.D. 365.2422509 365d
5h 48m 50.48s
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