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A short exposition to expose an oversight in the Jules Verne classic "Around the World in Eighty Days". Jules Verne acknowledged the matter in question but failed to realize that the error would have been picked up in San Francisco. This had an important bearing on the plot when he reached New York.
A short exposition to expose an oversight in the Jules Verne classic "Around the World in Eighty Days". Jules Verne acknowledged the matter in question but failed to realize that the error would have been picked up in San Francisco. This had an important bearing on the plot when he reached New York.
A short exposition to expose an oversight in the Jules Verne classic "Around the World in Eighty Days". Jules Verne acknowledged the matter in question but failed to realize that the error would have been picked up in San Francisco. This had an important bearing on the plot when he reached New York.
Let ωs be the angular speed of the Earth’s diurnal rotation relative to
the Sun, and let ωf be Phileas Fogg’s average angular speed relative to the Earth as he travels eastwards. By relative addition of speeds it follows that,
ωs + ωf = ωa (1)
where ωa is Fogg’s apparent angular speed relative to the Sun. Since
period T = 2π/ω, then,
1/Ts + 1/Tf = 1/Ta (2)
and multiplying across by Tf we obtain,
Tf/Ts + 1 = Tf/Ta (3)
Tf is the time it takes for Fogg to undergo a complete circuit of the
world, while Ts is one actual day, and Ta is an apparent day from Fogg’s perspective. Tf/Ts is therefore the actual number of days that he experienced on his journey, while Tf/Ta is the apparent number of days experienced, which we would expect to be more since he is always heading towards Sun. Hence from equation (3), if the apparent number of days is 80, the actual number of days would be only 79. Jules Verne wrote the book in 1873. Although the International Date Line wasn’t officially standardized around the 180 degrees longitude line until 1884, the concept was still known and the error should have been picked up in the newspapers by Fogg when he arrived in San Francisco. When Mexico was still Spanish prior to 1810, the date line was drawn to the west of the Philippines due to regular trade between Manila and Acapulco. This was changed in 1845 by cancelling Tuesday 31st December 1844. The Philippines then went unto the same side of the International Date Line as China.
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