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Errata for F. W. Bessel (1825): The calculation of longitude and latitude from geodesic measurements (translated by C. F. F. Karney and R. E. Deakin).

Errata in Astron. Nachr. 331(8), 852–861 (Sept. 2010):

• Sec. 2, para. 1: replace “radius of curvature by R” by “radius of curvature be R”.
• Sec. 2, 4th last eq.: use the partial derivative in place of “dU/dp”.
• Some links were omitted:
  • Bessel's original paper: doi: 10.1002/asna.18260041601; facsimile: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1825AN......4..241B.
  • Clairaut's paper (footnote 6): https://books.google.com/books?id=GOAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA406.
  • Legendre, Exercices de Calcul Intégral, Vol 1 (footnote 14): https://books.google.com/books?id=riIOAAAAQAAJ.
  • von Müffling's paper (footnote 21): https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1823AN......2...33V.

Errata in arXiv:0908.1824v2 (Feb. 2010) [these have been corrected in arXiv:0908.1824v3, (Mar. 2010)]:

• Footnote 1: the initial quotation marks on “du Séjour's method” are the wrong way round.
• Sec. 2, para. 1: replace “the azimuth of line directed” by “the azimuth of the line directed”.
• Sec. 2, para. 1: replace “radius of curvature by R” by “radius of curvature be R”.
• Sec. 2, 4th last eq.: use the partial derivative in place of “dU/dp”.
• Page 5, col. 2, line 2: replace “adding the first term in the series” by “adding the next term in the series”.
• Sec. 9, para. 1: replace “Thus it not possible” by “Thus it is not possible”.

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Charles Karney <[email protected]> (2019-09-16)

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