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Re: Some more inconsistencies

From: Norm Wolcott <nwolcott2ster~at~gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:33:59 -0400
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Indeed the listed eclipses are those visible in some part of europe or
algeria which was a part of France including the 1861 eclipse

On 6/19/06, jcrovisier~at~free.fr <jcrovisier~at~free.fr> wrote:
>
> There is another queer statement about solar eclipses in "The Fur
> Country".
> JV writes that there are five total solar eclipses, after the 1860
> eclipse,
> until 1900 ("Après celle-ci, nous aurons encore cinq éclipses totales de
> soleil jusqu'en 1900" - PF, Partie 1, Chap. XXIII). These five eclipses
> are listed by JV:
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 31 décembre 1861 "qui sera totale pour l'océan Atlantique"
> 22 décembre 1870 "totale pour les Acores, l'Espagne méridionale,
> l'Algérie,
> la Sicile et la Turquie"
> 19 août 1887 "totale pour le nord-est de l'Allemagne, la Russie
> méridionale
> et l'Asie centrale"
> 9 août 1896 "visible pour le Groënland, la Laponie et la Sibérie"
> 28 mai 1900 "totale pour les États- Unis, l'Espagne, l'Algérie et
> l'Égypte"
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> In fact, this list of 5 eclipses is far from being complete. There are no
> less than 26 total eclipses until the end of the century! (see e.g.
> "Astronomie Populaire" by Camille Flammarion).
>
> What is the source of JV for such an incomplete list? I do not know, but
> one can remark that the 5 listed eclipses are exactly those for which the
> totality zone crosses Europe and/or Algeria.
>
> Jacques Crovisier
>
>
>

-- 
Norman Wolcott, nwolcott2 at post.harvard.edu

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