Re: accruate "sundials"


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> jtaylor wrote:
> > <geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > Do you still think you have a choice in designating two values for
> > > axial rotation through 360 degrees ?.
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> >
> > Don't we have a choice between many values, depending on which other
body we
> > choose to pretend to be stationary?
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> Dawn,noon,dusk,dawn ... is a consequence of the single axial rotation
> of the Earth,start to pretend that you have choices on this matter and
> you are not an astronomer,it is that simple.You and the mathematical
> theorists are giving yourselves choices you do not have and worse
> still,you are tying the Earth's axial rotation directly to external
> references

But isn't the sun, which gives us dawn, noon, & dusk, etcetera, an external
reference?


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