August 16th 2000
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pxv 4.2
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pxvi figure 13.1 Replace: magha
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pxvii figure 29.1 Replace Hyppolytus
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p13 Caption to figure 1.3
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see page 20
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figure 2.5
The angle R (right ascension) should be the angle between AO and the radius
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p33 Table 2.3 column 1
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column 4, line of Al-Zarqali
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column 6, line of Al-Zarqali
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precession
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p37 Table 2.5, caption
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to the star Sirius
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p45 Table 3.1
Entry for China
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Entry for France
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Sung
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p57 Figure 3.11 legend
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p68 Caption to Fig 4.1
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p69 Caption to Fig 4.2
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51 BC
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Shih Huang-ti
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p105 Table 6.3 cycle of years
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footnote
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L.F.Potitus
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nations
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p129 Table 8.3 1378 AD
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the Roman Church
A.D.1582
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p141 Figure 9.7 legend
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p144 Figure 9.9 legend
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330 BC
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Table 11.1, line 4
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working in 1500
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1543
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, together with the seven-day European week (unknown in Japan until
then)
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week had been in use since 1007 if not before)
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by the excision of their still beating hearts
(note that it was the Aztecs who did ths rather than the Mayas)
line 12
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(Note they also used string-ray spines)
p192 line 13 Replace:
is both day 4 of Ahau and day 8 of Cumhu
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trecena, is in the veintena named Ahua
and is the 8th day of the uinal named Cumhu.
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47 BC
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kalends
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III Aprilis
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Apriles
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IV Aprilis
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pridie idus
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Martias
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Martias
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p212 Table 16.1 Col: Caesar, Row: Martius
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Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose
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Ventose
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line 18
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lines 18 up and 16 up
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last line Replace:
bombe-atomique
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p262 Table 20.1 Replace: Nivose,
Pluvoise, Ventose
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Ventose
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(note spelling of Pluviose)
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p271 Table 21.1, line 3, column Day 5
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p279 line 1
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21.3
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line 9
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Expedit
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dies Saturn
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Caption to Figure 21,2
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(with an acute accent on the internal e)
p282 lines 2-4 Replace:
There are two names for Sunday in Russian -
the first means 'day of the Resurrection' and the second,
used in the other Slavic languages, 'day of rest'.
by:
There are two names for Sunday in the Slavic languages -
the first, used in Russian, means 'Resurrection', and the
second, used in the other Slavic languages means 'rest'.
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as in modern Iclandic, German and Russian.
by: as in Russian and the
other Slavic languages ,
and also in German and modern (but not old) Iclandic
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phonetically the same
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origen
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positive integers
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line 28
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p290 Table 22.1 line 5
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footnote 2
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11 or 12
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line 13
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p317 Table 25.3 footnone 5
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p320 Table 25.4: footnote *
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p323 Table 25.5, Row Ides, column Aug
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the Tishri
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equation 27.29
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of complete
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84-year
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P = 49
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Algorithm M: step 1
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Step 2
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p374 Caption to fig 29.1
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in F are
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p398/99 Column headed Nivose
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Vendemaire
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Fructidor
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Fructidor
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Frimaire
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grave accent on the first e instead of an acute)
p409 Siddhanta
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Serpet
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Soth
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p419 Reference K7
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p426 Reference S36
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The following corrections are to the index, pages 429 - 438
p429 Al-Fazani
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p430 Boyle
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by: Boyle, Charles
calendars:
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p431 Council of:
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Ctesibus
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p432 days
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Delambre
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Fabrew
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Fogg
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Gauss
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by: Friedrich
p433 Gematria
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by: 76
Grossteste
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by: Grosseteste
Guo
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by: Shoujing
Hulaka
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by: Huluka
Indictions
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by: 85,101, 218
Iranaeus
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by: Irenaeus
Isadore
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Jain religion
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p434 Karthikadi
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Kiddamu
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Lilio
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Maccu Picu
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Mahivira
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Marechal
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Marshak
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Mastrofino
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Mayan
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p435 Mohengo
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molod
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molod of Tishri
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Before subhead 'blue'
and after head 'months'
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Paul of Middleberg
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p436 Ptolemy III
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Ptolemy Sotor
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Pythagorus
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Sassenids
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Sevile
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p437 Siculus
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stars
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Stukely
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Terminaluia
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Thorgilsson
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trecana
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veintana
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p438 Yazgererd
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Yazgererd calendar
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Zellor's
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