Further Errata for Mapping Time

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Here are some further errors (mostly minor) that are present in all editions and which were reported  after September 10th 1999.
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 August 16th 2000

pxiv  4.1         Replace:    heiroglyph
                  by:         hieroglyph

pxv   4.2         Replace:    heiroglyph
                  by:         hieroglyph

pxvi  figure 13.1 Replace:    magha
                  by:         Magha

pxvii figure 29.1 Replace     Hyppolytus
                  by:         Hippolytus

p12   line 19     Replace:    Auant
                  by:         Avant

      line 12 up  Replace:    Anglemois
                  by:         Angolmois

p13   Caption to figure 1.3
                  Replace:    1505
                  by:         1503

p23   line 10     Replace:    see page 20
                  by:         see page 28
 
      figure 2.5
                   The angle R (right ascension) should be the angle between AO and the radius passing through the foot of the perpendicular from S measured anti-clockwise.

p33   Table 2.3 column 1
                   Replace:    San Thung
                   by:         San Tong

                   Replace:    Guo-Shouying
                   by:         Guo-Shoujing

                column 4, line of Al-Zarqali
                   Replace:    365.24225
                   by:         365.24264

                column 6, line of Al-Zarqali
                   Replace:    0.00002
                   by:         0.00041

p35   line 5 up    Replace:    precession
                   by:         regression

p36   Figure 2.6 The arrows on the orbits of the earth and of the moon should ne reversed

p37   Table 2.5, caption
                   Replace:    Ptolemeic
                   by:         Ptolemaic

p38   line 5       Replace:    to the star Sirius
                   by:         accurately North-South
 
      line 3 up    Replace:    1252-78
                   by:         1252-84

                   Replace:    1278
                   by:         1277

p41   line 12      Replace:    astrolabe
                   by:         astrolabon

p45   Table 3.1
                 Entry for China
                    Replace:   1 day = 100 ke
                    by:        1 ke = 0.01 day

                 Entry for France
                    Replace:   decimale
                    by:        decimales
                    (in all three lines. Note the accented e which should stand)

                    Replace:   seconds
                    by:        secondes

p56   line 6 up     Replace:   Sung
                    by:        Song

p57   Figure 3.11 legend
                    Replace:   Sung
                    by:        Song

p68   Caption to Fig 4.1
                    Replace:   heiroglyph
                    by:        hieroglyph

p69   Caption to Fig 4.2
                    Replace:   heiroglyph
                    by:        hieroglyph

p70   line 13       Replace:   51 BC
                    by:        47 BC

      line 12 up    Replace:   Shih Huang-ti
                    by:        Shi Huangdi

p72   line 14 up    Delete:    (

p73   line 9 up     Replace:   vingt
                    by:        vingts

p74   line 4 up     Replace:   sequeals
                    by:        squeals

p75   line 23       Replace:   burnt down
                    by:        burnt down in 1834

p81   line 19       Delete:    von

      line 7 up     Replace:   possibly unique
                    by:        unusual

p82   line 7        Replace:    1 and 60
                    by:         0 and 59

p83   line 10       Replace:    60'ths
                    by:         60ths

p104  line 14       Replace:    23539040
                    by:         23639040

      line 17       Replace:    The longest
                    by:         One

      line  23      Replace:    muhurta
                    by:         muhala

p105  Table 6.3     cycle of years
                    Replace:    Chi
                    by:         Ji

                    footnote
                    Replace:    Chi
                    by:         Ji

p106   line 5       Delete:     L.F.Potitus
                    Delete:     C.F.Marcellus
                    (these are the names of the two consul's father)

p120   line 7 up    Replace:    nations
                    by:         Nations

p129   Table 8.3  1378 AD
                    Replace:    schism between Greek amnd Roman Christianity
                    by:         great schism within the Roman Church

                  A.D.1582
                    Replace:   Gregory III
                    by:        Gregory XIII

p140   line 5 up   Replace:    Macchu Piccu
                   by:         Maccu Picchu

p141   Figure 9.7 legend
                   Replace:    summer
                   by:         winter

p144   Figure 9.9 legend
                   Replace:    sunrise
                   by:         sunset

p150   line 4 up
                   Replace:    Ptolemeic
                   by:         Ptolemaic

p151   line 12     Replace:    330 BC
                   by:         331 BC

       Table 11.1, line 4
                   Replace:    5155
                   by:         2155

p152   lines 11,12,15,17,26,3 up
                   Replace:    Serpet 
                   by:         Sopdet

       line 23     Replace     sunset  
                   by:         sunrise

p154   line 2      Replace:    working in 1500
                   by:         who published in 1543

p163   lines 8 & 9
                   Replace:    pu
                   by:         bu

       line 13     Replace:    Hsi
                   by:         Xi

p171   line3-4     Replace:    , together with the seven-day European week (unknown in Japan  until then)
                   by:          (The seven-day week had been in use since 1007 if not before)

p186   line 10     Delete:      by the excision of their still beating hearts
                   (note that it was the Aztecs who did ths rather than the Mayas)

       line 12     Replace:     agate
                   by:          obsidian
                   (Note they also used string-ray spines)

p192   line 13     Replace:     is both day 4 of Ahau and day 8 of Cumhu
                   by:          is day 4 of a trecena, is in the veintena named Ahua          and is the 8th day of the uinal named Cumhu.

p206   line 12     Replace:     47 BC
                   by:          46 BC

                   Delete:      defeats Pompey and
                   (note: Caesar defeated Pompey at Pharsalas in 48 BC)

p210   line 8 up   Replace:     kalends
                   by:          kalendas

       line 7 up   Replace:     III Aprilis
                   by:          III kal. Apriles

       line 6 up   Replace:     IV Aprilis
                   by:          IV kal. Apriles

       line 5 up   Replace:     pridie idus
                   by:          pridie idus Martias

       line 4 up   Replace:     III Martius
                   by:          III id. Martias

       line 3 up   Replace:     pridie Martius
                   by:          pridie non. Martias

                   Replace:     diem VI
                   by:          diem VI non.
 

       line 2 up   Replace:     Martius
                   by:          Martias

 p212   Table 16.1 Col: Caesar, Row: Martius
                   Replace:     30
                   by:          31
 
p214   lines 4/5   Replace:     VI cal. Feb.
                   by:          VI kal. Mar.

p215   line 2      Replace:     13 AD
                   by;          13 BC

p222   line 7      Replace:     311
                   by;          323

p233   line 15     Replace:     11 years
                   by:          7 years

p247   line 2      Replace:     calendariia
                   by;          calendarii a
 
p250   line 6 up   Replace:     2000
                   by:          20000

p261   line 6      Replace:     Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose
                   by:          Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose
                                (with circumflex accents on the 'o's)

       line 18     Replace:     Primdi
                   by:          Primedi

       lines 18 up and 16 up
                   Replace:     du
                   by:          de la

       last line   Replace:     bombe-atomique
                   by:          bombe atomique
                   (no hyphen)

p262   Table 20.1  Replace:    Nivose, Pluvoise, Ventose
                   by:         Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose
                              (with circumflex accents on the 'o's)
                   (note spelling of Pluviose)

                   Replace:    Hissemonat
                   by:         Hitzemonat

p271   Table 21.1, line 3, column Day 5
                   Replace:    Wedensday
                   by:         Wednesday
 
p278   line 4 up
p279   line 1
                   Replace:    chestidnevki
                   by:         shestidnevki

p280   line 1      Replace:    21.3
                   by:         21.2

       line  9     Replace:    Martius
                   by:         Martis

       line 3 up   Replace     Expedit
                   by;         Expedit (with an acute accent on the internal e)

p281   line 3 up   Replace:    dies Saturn
                   by:         dies Saturni

       line 2 u    Replace     dies sol
                   by:         dies Solis

       Caption to Figure 21,2
                   Replace:    Expedit
                   by;         Expedit
                               (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'.

        lines 7,8  Replace;    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
 
p283   line 2 up   Replace:    phonetically the same
                   by:         clearly of the same origen

p288   line 21     Replace:    positive integers
                   by:         integers

       line 28     Replace:    4713
                   by:         4714

p290   Table 22.1 line 5
                   Replace:    BC
                   by:         AD

                   footnote 2
                   Replace:    previous
                   by:         next

p296   line 8      Replace:    11 or 12
                   by:         10 or 11

       line 13     Replace:    (153M' - 151)
                   by:         (153M' + 2)

p297   line 12      Replace:    greater than
                    by:         less than

       line 13     Replace:    smallest minimum
                   by:         smallest maximum
 
p312   line 10 up  Replace:    1 + M
                   by:         1 - M

p317   Table 25.3  footnone 5
                   Replace:    intercalary years
                   by:         intercalary days

p320   Table 25.4: footnote *
                   Replace:    400
                   by:         4000

p322   line 7      Replace:    25.13
                   by:         25.14

       line 14     Replace:    25.13
                   by:         25.14

p323   Table 25.5, Row Ides, column Aug
                   Replace:    3
                   by:         13

p326   line 16up   Replace:    the Tishri
                   by:         Tishri

                   Replace:    , the interval
                   by:         and the interval

       line 15up   Replace:    ones
                   by:         molads

p336   line 2 up   Replace:    19
                   by:         12

       line 1 up   Replace:    12
                   by:         19

p339   line 13     Replace:    equation 27.29
                   by:         equation 27.28

p339   line 6 up   Replace:    1980
                   by:         18980

p340   line 4      Replace:     0 to 365
                   by:          0 to 364

       line 2 up   Replace:     of complete
                   by:          of days in the complete

p341   line 3      Replace:     27.30
                   by:          27.29

       line 9      Replace:     27.38
                   by:          27.37

       line 10     Replace:     27.39
                   by:          27.38

p349   line 6 up   Replace:     84-year
                   by:          16-year

p364   line 2      Replace:     P = 49
                   by:          R = 49

                   Replace:     D = 1
                   by:          d = 1

        Algorithm M: step 1
                   Replace:     26.12
                   by:          24.12

                     Step 2
                   Replace:     26.14
                   by:          24.12

p374   Caption to fig 29.1
                   Replace     Hyppolytus
                   by:         Hippolytus

p383   line 6 up   Replace:     in F are
                   by:          in E are

p398/99 Column headed Nivose
                   Replace:     Houile
                   by:          Houille

                      Vendemaire
                   Replace:     Pome-de-Terre
                   by:          Pomme-de-Terre

                      Fructidor
                   Replace:     Pastreque
                   by:          Pasteque (with a grave accent on the first e)

                      Fructidor
                   Delete:      204

                      Frimaire
                   Replace:     Liege
                   by:          Liege (with a grave accent on the first e instead of an acute)

p409   Siddhanta
                   Replace:     Siddhantas
                   by:          Siddhanta
                   (retain the circumflex accent on the first a)

       Serpet      Replace:     Serpet
                   by:          Sopdet

                   Replace:     Soth
                   by:          Sothis

       Soth        Replace:     Soth
                   by:          Sothis

p419   Reference K7
                   Replace:     01-00-00
                   by:          01-01-00

p426   Reference S36
                   Replace:     V4
                   by:          V12
 

  The following corrections are to the index, pages 429 - 438

p429   Al-Fazani
                   Replace:     al-Fazani
                   by:          al-Fazari

p430   Boyle
                   Replace:     Boyle, John
                   by:          Boyle, Charles

       calendars:
                   Replace:     Icelandic
                   by:          Icelandic 204

                   Replace:     Yazgererd
                   by:          Yazdegerd

p431   Council of:
                   Replace:     Chaldecon
                   by:          Chalcedon
 
       Ctesibus
                   Replace:     Ctesibus
                   by:          Ctesibius
 
p432   days
                   Replace:     siderial
                   by:          sidereal
 
       Delambre
                   Replace:     Baptist
                   by:          Baptiste

        Fabrew
                   Replace:      Fabrew
                   by:           Fabre
 
        Fogg
                   Replace:     Phileus
                   by:          Phileas
 
        Gauss
                  Replace:     Frederick
                  by:          Friedrich
 
p433   Gematria
                  Replace:     77
                  by:          76

        Grossteste
                  Replace:     Grossteste
                  by:          Grosseteste
 
        Guo
                  Replace:     Shoujung
                  by:          Shoujing
 
        Hulaka
                  Replace:     Hulaka
                  by:          Huluka

        Indictions
                  Replace:     85,101
                  by:          85,101, 218

        Iranaeus
                  Replace:     Iranaeus
                  by:          Irenaeus

        Isadore
                  Replace:     Isadore
                  by:          Isidore

        Jain religion
                  Replace:     133
                  by:          107

p434    Karthikadi
                  Replace:     Karthikadi
                  by:          Karttikadi

        Kiddamu
                  Replace:     Kiddamu
                  by:          Kiddanu

        Lilio
                  Replace:     Baldasdsar
                  by:          Baldassar

        Maccu Picu
                  Replace:     Maccu Picu 40
                  by:          Maccu Picchu  140

        Mahivira
                  Replace:     Mahivira
                  by:          Mahavira

        Marechal
                  Replace:     Sylvan
                  by:          Sylvain

        Marshak
                  Replace:     Marshak
                  by:          Marshack

        Mastrofino
                  Replace:     Mastrofino
                  by:          Mastrofini

        Mayan
                  Replace:     vientena
                  by:          veintena

p435    Mohengo
                  Replace:    Mohengo
                  by:         Mohenjo

        molod
                 Replace:     molod
                 by:          molad

        molod of Tishri
                 Replace:     molod
                 by:          molad

        Before subhead 'blue' and after head 'months'
                 Insert head word:  Moon

        Paul of Middleberg
                 Replace:     Middleberg
                 by:          Middelburg

p436    Ptolemy III
                 Replace:     Eurgetes
                 by:          Euergetes

        Ptolemy Sotor
                 Replace:     Sotor
                 by:          Soter

        Pythagorus
                 Replace:     Pythagorus
                 by:          Pythagoras

        Sassenids
                Replace:      Sassenids
                by:           Sassanids

        Sevile
                Replace:      Sevile
                by:           Savile

p437    Siculus
                Replace:      Dioduras     
                by:           Diodorus

        stars
                Replace:      Thubon
                by:           Thuban

        Stukely
                Replace:      Stukely
                by:           Stukeley

        Terminaluia
                Replace:      Terminaluia
                by:           Terminalia

        Thorgilsson
                Replace:       Frode
                by:            Frodi

        trecana
                Replace:       trecana
                by:            trecena

        veintana
                Replace:       veintana
                by:            veintena

p438    Yazgererd
                Replace:       Yazgererd
                by:            Yazdegerd

        Yazgererd calendar
                Replace:       Yazgererd
                by:            Yazdegerd

        Zellor's
                Replace:       Zellor
                by:            Zeller



   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.


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egrichards@zetnet.co.uk  August 16th 2000