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Longitude calculation (page 35) #1

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Christopher-Shera opened this issue Sep 30, 2021 · 3 comments
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Longitude calculation (page 35) #1

Christopher-Shera opened this issue Sep 30, 2021 · 3 comments

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Christopher-Shera commented Sep 30, 2021

Maybe I am simply misunderstanding how the calculation is done, but shouldn't the sentence about the mariner at the top of page 35 read "His longitude is 1.5 x 15 = 22.5 degrees east of Toledo" (rather than 37.5 degrees west)? This puts the mariner somewhere off the Italian coast in the Mediterranean, rather than in the Atlantic. There are 1.5 hours between 10:30 and midnight, and if the mariner's time is later (midnight, vs 10:30 in Toledo), then isn't he to the east?

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friendly commented Sep 30, 2021

Thanks;
but p. 35 of what? I don't see this text in the .Rd documentation

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Apologies! Page 35 of A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication. This is the GitHub site linked on the book's website.

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friendly commented Jan 5, 2022

Thx so much for this catch. I've added this to the list of Errata, shown in pdf/Errata.pdf.

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