고1 지학 민찬규 4과 Supplementary Reading

Lesson 4 Supplementary Reading

Around the World in 80 Days

 

When Phileas Fogg appeared in the large drawing room, the clock struck 8:45.

 

He had just completed his long journey.

 

This meant he had won his bet with his colleagues that he could travel around the world in 80 days.

 

But there was some confusion.

 

He thought he had arrived in London on Saturday, December 21,

 

but actually, it was Friday, December 20,

 

only 79 days after his initial departure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Being an extremely precise and careful person,

 

how had he mixed up what day it was?

 

There is a simple reason for his confusion.

 

Fogg unknowingly had gained a day on his journey

 

simply because he had gone round the world eastwards.

 

He would, on the contrary, have lost this day if he had gone in the opposite direction, westwards.

 

By heading east, Fogg had gone towards the sun,

 

and consequently his days were four minutes shorter for each degree of longitude covered in that direction.

 

The earth is three hundred and sixty degrees around, and he went entirely around the earth.

 

Three hundred and sixty multiplied by four minutes is twenty-four hours, or a day.

 

Thus, while Fogg, heading eastwards, saw the sun cross the earth 80 times,

 

his colleagues, remaining in London, saw it cross only 79 times.

 

And this was why, on that very same day, Saturday, and not Sunday as Fogg believed,

 

they were waiting for him in the drawing room of the Reform Club.

 

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