Re: accruate "sundials"


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> jtaylor wrote:
> > <geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > To jTaylor
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> > > Because the natural inequality from one noon to the next is a
> > consequence of two independent motions
> >
> > Isn't there more variation than that - the effects of large planets,
tidal
> > forces, etcetera?
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> I would never tell a person that the Equation of Time principles which
> maintain the equivalency of axial rotation at 15 degrees per hour is
> difficult to grasp,it is not and the exquisite reasoning which allied
> the pace of hours,minutes and seconds to axial rotation came from a
> different people,not this level where the clarity is fudged to make way
> from the sidereal reasoning of Flamsteed/Newton.
>
> You have the luxury of looking through your telescopes and calling
> yourselves 'astronomers' by that fact but as an isolated group,you
> cannot even manage to acknowledge how the equable 24 hour day
> translates into constant axial rotation within a heliocentric
> framework.
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> There is nothing to compare in human history with the awful lapse of
> reasoning that constitutes the Newtonian ballistic agenda applied to
> planetary motion and it shows in your reply.

But - is there or is there not more variation than that - the effects of
large planets, tidal forces, etcetera?


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