Re: Longitude and the Equation of Time

On Feb 22, 11:05 pm, Eric Stevens <eric.stev...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 22 Feb 2007 13:01:28 -0800, "oriel36" <geraldkelle...@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Feb 22, 8:25 pm, Eric Stevens <eric.stev...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 22 Feb 2007 09:00:22 -0800, "oriel36" <geraldkelle...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00889697&id=zWffvdGSTWIC&pg=RA3...

Page 48 - 52

So what have you all against one of the most delightful correlations
ever devised by human reasoning,this small article is fine for
proposing the only acceptable value which links clocks to axial
rotation.

If the link works then fine,if not,then there are plenty of different
way to appreciate the magnificent achievement where the ancient
Equation of Time correction which creates the 24 hour day was given a
new twist by the great Western astronomers when axial rotation was
discovered.

It would be wonderful if there were archaeologists here but apparently
there are none,only cardboard cutout props used to support idiotic
conceptions.

Not a bad book for 1837.

You should refer to page 28.

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The Total length of the daily cycle varies hence the neccessity of the
Equation of Time to equalise the variations to equable 24 hours and
keep those 24 hours seamlessly elapsing into the next 24 hours.That
author in 1837 unfortunately observes (on page 50 ) that the Sun
appears to travel at 15 degrees per hour but this is incorrect,if it
did there would be no need for the Equation of Time.

The author ,after correctly telling his readers on page 51 that you
need to apply the Equation of Time to correlate clock time with civil
longitudes in terms of 24 hour/360 degrees , as the natural day is
unequal,tells his readers on page 28 that a location rotates to the
Sun in exactly 24 hours.

If you have difficulties accepting that the length of the natural
cycle is unequal and that the Equation of Time is neccessity to reduce
natural noon to 24 hour clock noon,then why refer me to page 28 ...

Because it explains the difference between solar and sidereal time.

The author was explaining it to school kids in 1837 and yet you seem
to find the idea too hard to accept.


The difference between the solar day and the sidereal day is the same
as the difference between micky mouse and donald duck,they are
concepts that exist only in the imagination and are believed by those
who know no better.

The Equation of Time principles I have shown you are the basis of the
equable 24 hour day,you can actually see how that 24 hour clock day
was created by brilliant men and then applied to terrestrial
longitudes,it is so well known through the Longitude story that only
with the greatest courtesy can I bring myself to respond to a person
who assigns an alternative value (23 hours 56 minutes 04 seconds) for
clocks and axial rotation.

Is there so sort of perverse satisfaction is adhering to a solar/
sidereal conception for the Earth's axialand orbital motions based on
the calendar system ?.

John Harrison knew who he was dealing with,a slovenly bunch of
miserable and mediocre creatures who hate anything that is good and
worthwhile -


" But indeed, had I continued under the hands of the rude
commissioners, this completion, or great accomplishment, neither
would, nor could, ever have been obtained; but however, providence
otherwise ordered the matter, and I can now boldly say, that if the
provision for the heat and cold could properly be in the balance
itself, as it is in the pendulum, the watch [or my longitude
time-keeper] would then perform to a few seconds in a year, yea, to
such perfection now are imaginary impossibilities conquered; so the
priests at Cambridge and Oxford, &c. may cease their pursuit in the
longitude affair, and as otherwise then to occupy their time."
John Harrison

I have no intention of watching you lot maintain ideologies that
destroy the careful work of many civilisations so that you can be
impressed with yourselves.











... which
determines that the Sun returns to a meridian in exactly 24 hours -

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00889697&id=zWffvdGSTWIC&pg=RA3...

Have you not heard of the Longitude story or how sundials and the
Equation of Time works to create the human devised principle of the 24
hour day ?,obviously not.

Who would ever have thought that archaeologists,at least I think you
are archaeologists,would try to manufacture a history that overturns
the basic correlation between sundials,the Equation of Time and the 24
hour day and how it was transfered to the clock/axial rotation at 15
degrees per hour making 24 hours in total.

Tell me what your sidereal value gives for the correlation of clocks
and axial rotation per hour ?.That is how ridiculous you are with the
most basic known fact.

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