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 were found since the paperback edition went to press.

Misprints and errors in the text of the paperback edition

Listed below are errors (and corrections) remaining  in the paperback edition.
Errors are still being reported and further errors discovered after September 10th 199 are reported in:   Further errors in all printings

 August 16th 2000

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Preface  line 5 up    Replace:   Pompei.
                      by:        Pompeii
 
                      Replace:   Fig 21.2
                      by:        Fig 21.1

Preface  line 10      Replace:   Leibenrood
                      by:        Liebenrood

pxii   line L         Replace:   of the calendar
                      by:        of the Mayan calendar

pxiii  line 5         Replace:   1505
                      by:        1503

p12   line 7          Replace:   cosmalogies
                      by:        cosmologies

      line 16         Replace:   monante
                      by:        nonante

p13   Caption to figure 1.3
                      Replace:   1505
                      by:        1503

p16   line 2 up       Replace:   Juinp
                      by:        Junip
                      Note: My source says 'Juinp' but 'Junip' sounds better!

p23   line 2          Replace:   2.3
                      by:        2.1
 
      figure 2.5      R (right ascension)  is wrongly shown as being 90 degrees. It should be measured anti-clockwise from OA to the radius passing through the foot of the perpendicular from Star.

p35   Table 2.4       The names given as those of  Chinese authors are in reality the names of Chinese calendars
 
p45   Table 3.1       Replace:   1 chalakim
                      by:        1 chalak
 

p60   line 14         Replace:   Chuggia
                      by:        Padua

p73   line 2          Replace:   oa-oa, oa-oa-oa
                      by:        oa-oa,  oa-oa-a, oa-oa-oa

      line 3          Replace:   five
                      by:        six

                      Replace:   At six
                      by:        After six

p77   Figure 5.3      The numbers representing 819 and 72,063 are still not quite right:

         The top two digits of 819 ( o  o  and <>  should be separated by a blank line.

         The top three digits of 72,063 (o o o  and <> and oooo) should be separated by two blank lines

p81   line 19         Replace:   quinzieme
                      by:        quinzaine

p110  line 3          Replace:   Sanhedrim
                      by:        Sanhedrin

p127  Table 8.1
p130  line 3 up
p132  line 16 up
p435  Index
                      In these 4 places:
                      Replace:  paleolithic
                      by:       palaeolithic

p154  Table 11.2      Replace:  Epogomenae
                      by:       Epagomenae

p156  line 3          Replace:  step with moon
                      by:       step with the moon
 
p158  Table 11.3 line 8
                      Replace:   9 July 552
                      by:        11 July 552

      line 9          Replace:   Chaldecon
                      by:        Chalcedon

p162  line 7 up       Replace:   Yin
                      by:        Yang

      line 7 up       Replace:   Yang
                      by:        Yin

p184  line 5 up       Replace:   Shah
                      by:        Riza Shah
 
p192  Table 14.4
                      Replace:   kim
                      by:        kin
                      (three occurances)

p193  line 13         Replace:   Ahua
                      by:        Ahau

p197  lines 2, 3, 14 & 15
                      Replace:   Posideon
                      by:        Poseideon
p202  Table 15.3
            line 1    Replace:   Quarter days in England and Scotland
                      by:        English Quarter days and old Scottish Term days

            line 4    Replace:   15 May
                      by:        5 May

            line 8    Replace:   Scottish quarter days
                      by:        Scottish term days
 
p207  line 4          Replace:  Macrobios
                      by:       Macrobius

p211  line 14         Replace   with the their
                      by:       with their

      line 10 up      Replace:  Iupiter
                      by:       Iuppiter

p213  Table 16.2, col 5, line 3
                      Replace:  I
                      by:       IV
                      (as in columns 2, 3, 4)

                  footnote
                      Replace:   after March VI
                      by:        before VI Kal.  Martias

p217  line 7 up       Remove the semicolon (;) after 'Diocletian'

p218  line 2 up       Replace:   indications
                      by:        indictions

p221  line  4         Replace:   Ethanum
                      by:        Ethanim

      lines  6 & 17   Replace:   Abib
                      by:        Aviv

p222  line 6          Replace:   Necator
                      by:        Nicator

p223  lines 3 up, 1 up
p224  lines 3, 6, 12, 10up, 7 up
p226  lines 5, 6, 7, 16, 3 up, 2up
p227  lines 1, 6, 15up, 14up, 11up, 6up, 4up
p228  lines 4, 5, 5 up
p326  lines 9, 12, 13, 11up
p327  lines 5, 12, 17
p328  lines 6, 14up
p329  line 1up
p331  line 10up
                       In all these places:
                       Replace:   Molod
                       by:        Molad
                       Which represents a better transliteration from the Hebrew
 
p223  lines 15, 17, 22, 24   In these four lines:
                       Replace:   Sanhedrim
                       by:        Sanhedrin

      line 12 up       Replace:   10 chalakim are equal to three
                       by:        three chalakim are equal to 10

p224  line 17          Replace:   Nisam
                       by:        Nisan
 
p244  line 3 up
p245  line 4 up     In these two places:
                       Replace:   Chacon (with a grave accent on o)
                       by:        Chacon  (with an acute accent on o)
 
p246  line 2           Replace:   the following year on 4 October.
                       by:        the same year in October.

p253  line 15 up       Replace:   354
                       by:        355
                       (1752 was a leap year)

p265  line 8 up        Replace:   west
                       by:        east
 
      line 7 up        Replace:   east
                       by:        west

p276  line 13 up       Replace:   shop
                       by:        shops

p280  Table 21.2       Replace:   Iupiter
                       by:        Iuppiter
                       (Under Roman and in caption)

p290  Table 22.1,
          line 4 (Egyptian calendar)
                       Replace:   20-04-0747
                       by:        26-02-0747

          line 5 (Armenian calendar)
                       Replace:   BC
                       by:        AD

          line 6  (Khwarizmian calendar)
                       Replace:   195206
                       by:        1952068

          line 21 (Bahai calendar)
                       Replace:   11-05-1844
                       by:        09-3-1844

                       Replace:   2394710
                       by:        2394647

          line 22 (Saka calendar)
                       Replace:   04-03-0079
                       by:        24-03-0079

p292  line 5 & 6 up
                       Replace:   A and B are positive integers
                       by:        A and B are integers with A>=0, B>0
 
p296  line 13 up       Replace:   Zellor
                       by:        Zeller

 p305  line 9 up       Replace:   2466
                       by:        2474

      line 8 up        Replace:   MOD(2466,7)
                       by:        MOD(2474-1,7)

p312  line 8 up        Replace:   M =<  m
                       by:        M >=  m

p314  line 18          Replace:  Zellor
                       by:       Zeller

p319  lines 7 & 9      Replace:   y' - y₀'
                       by:        Y' - Y₀'

      line 11 up       Replace:   desirable
                       by:        essential

p327  line 11 up       Replace:   and 19 in an
                       by:        and 13 in an

p341  line 5 up        Replace:   kim
                       by:        kin

p345  line 3           Replace:   Oster
                       by:        Ostern

p368  line 3           Replace:   solar equation is given
                       by:        solar equation (for H>15) is given

        line 9           Replace:   where we have defined a quantity Q by:
                       by:        which is valid for any H > 0 when we define:

      line 9  up       Replace:   lunar correction is given
                       by:        lunar correction (for H>17) is given

      line 7 up        Replace:   Z/2
                       by:        Z/24

      line 5 up        Replace:   that:
                       by:        for any century (H>13) that:

p391  line 2 up        Replace:    Sontag      Sontag
                       by:         Sondag      Sondag
                       (but note non standard character should be retained in both)

p392  line 2           Replace:    Sonsdag
                       by:         Onsdag
 
p394  line 16 up       Replace:    Kak
                       by:         Yek

                       Replace:    ?
                       by:         Yeksem

p396  Under Turkic languages:
                       'Gunu' should follow: Pazartesi, Carasamba,
                        Persembe, Cuma and Cumartesi
                       (note: 'Gunu' means 'day')

      Under Chinese
                        Replace:   gi
                        by:        qi
                        (7 instances for the seven days)

                        Replace:   lian
                        by:        tian
                        (Sunday)

                        Replace:   shi
                        by:        si
                        (Thursday)

p401   Entry for: Bissextile year
                        Replace:   VI a.d. Kal Feb.
                        by:        a.d.VI Kal Mar.
                        (in both places)

p405   Entry for: Great circle *
                        Replace:   ecliptic, and
                        by:        ecliptic and
 
       Entry for: Greenwich Mean Time
                        Replace:   near London
                        by:        London

p407   Entry for: Paschal cycle
                        Replace:   dates of Easter
                        by:        Dionysian dates of Easter

       Entry for: Paschal full moon *
                        Replace:   equinox which is taken, notionally, to
                        by:        equinox, which is taken notionally to

p408   Entry for: Planet *
                        Replace:   Jupiter, and
                        by:        Jupiter and

p410   Entry for: Universal time (UT)
                        Replace:   lead
                        by:        leap

p419   Reference M1
                        Replace:   Time and it mysteries
                        by:        Time and its mysteries
 
p425   line 18          Replace:   third
                        by:        fourth

   pX   line N         points to the Nth line from the top on page X
   pX   line N up    points to the Nth line from the bottom on page X
   Letters to be deleted, inserted or changed are generally indicated in bold type.
   *      Punctuation only

 All algorithms in Part III & VI have been checked and tested and they may be downloaded in an ASCII file: