Re: Longitude and the Equation of Time

On 25 Feb 2007 03:36:09 -0800, "oriel36" <geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Feb 24, 10:52 pm, Eric Stevens <eric.stev...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 24 Feb 2007 03:01:00 -0800, "oriel36" <geraldkelle...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

You call me one thing or another and that is fine but I have still yet
to see a genuine commentator recognise that the creation of the 24
hour day through the Equation of Time correction was the work of
brilliant and careful people who recognised that the Total length of
the natural daily cycle,as determined at noon,was unequal.

"the Total length of the natural daily cycle,as determined at
noon,was unequal" - unequal to what?

... aah - never mind.


You clearly understand that you are arguing against the correlation
which keeps clocks in sync with axial rotation and this is probably
one of the greatest human achievements known,a product of the Equation
of Time correction which recognises that no two natural daily
cycles,as determined at noon, are equal in length.

I don't clearly understand anything of the kind.

Nor do you understand that a single thing on it's own can be neither
'equal' nor 'unequal' unless you compare it to another thing. Your
logic is faulty and so is you use of the english language.

You ask " unequal to what" and the only answer can be to the genius of
human ingenuity which creates the 24 hour day,keeps one 24 hour cycle
elapsing seamlessy into the next 24 hour cycle (Monday turns into
Tuesday,Tuesday turns into Wedneday...) and which in turns provides
the basis of a calendar system.The calendar system is a brilliant
extension of the 24 hour day by equalising the annual cyclical
length,as calculated by 24 hours days into a linear form as
progression of years.

Never mind indeed !,what can be said of individuals who cannot even
promote the simple fact that the natural daily cycles are unequal and
how men devised a system which creates the 24 hour day as recognition
of the care our ancestors took in noting the astronomical cycles and
how they evolved when heliocentric reasoning emerged through the
Copernican discoveries.

You, sir, are unequal.

Unequal to what, I will leave you to decide.


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Eric Stevens
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