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Re: Longitude of Japan in 20K

From: Jean-Pierre Boutin <boutin~at~versailles.inra.fr>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:25:52 +0200
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

... so corrections of "errors" in literary texts... may introduce new
errors ... etc ... Such revision is anyway a perilous task that is out
of the possibility of a single man (except the author himself … if he
is always alive). This remind me the first proof of the "Voyage au bout
de la nuit" that was send to Céline with all the punctuation marks
"corrected" ... (I like this story but it is possibly a legend).
Jean-Pierre Boutin

Le mardi, 8 avr 2008, à 11:48 Europe/Paris, jcrovisier~at~free.fr a écrit :

> If we consider that a "meridian" is a whole great circle, then Paris
> meridian also extends across the Pacific, along what we would call
> longitude 180 degrees.
>
> The position given by JV is 37 degrees west (as from the original
> French
> edition) of this meridian. This is in fact 143 degrees east of Paris,
> or
> 145 east of Greenwich.
>
> And then everything is consistent.
>
> Jacques Crovisier
>
>
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