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Re: Some more inconsistencies

From: volker dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:08:29 +0200
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

There is a simple explanation of the error: Verne began to write the novel in 1870-71. So he forgot that he made the calculation on his own time. One could write an whole book on these lapsi (look for instance in the commentated translations of Bill Butcher), and a lot of them habe been commentated in old issues of the "Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne".

Cheers,
Volker

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> Gesendet: 14.06.06 20:02:00
> An: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> Betreff: Re: Some more inconsistencies


> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Norm Wolcott wrote:
>
> > In the last page of the Fur Country, Thomas Black says he is sorry to
> > have missed the eclipse of 1860, but as it will occur again in the same
> > place 26 years later, he will meet everyone there twenty-six years later
> > in 1896.
> >
> > Take your pick. This leaves aside the question as to whether it is
> > likely that another eclipse would occur at the same place on earth in 26
> > years.
>
> I seem to remember an article in the BSJV about the dates and locations of
> these eclipses. IRRC, the 1860 totality was not quite so far north. The
> map at <http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.1027> seems to confirm
> this.
>
> See also Jacques Crovisier's interesting article on this novel at
> <http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/~crovisier/JV/verne_PF.html>.
>
> Cheers,
> Garmt.

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