Re: The Evil Cheese Burger Strikes Again

Exactly... well, maybe..

<geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> To Joe
>
> After telling his readers how the vulgar do not understand
> time,space,place and motion he himself gets it wrong by following
> Flamsteed's proof for axial rotation.
>
> "Hitherto I have laid down the definitions of such words as are less
> known, and explained the sense in which I would have them to be
> understood in the following discourse. I do not define time, space,
> place and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that
> the vulgar conceive those quantities under no other notions but from
> the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain
> prejudices, for the removing of which, it will be convenient to
> distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent,
> mathematical and common." Isaac
>
> http://members.tripod.com/~gravitee/definitions.htm#time
>
> Now you can be vulgar along with Isaac and mangle astronomy but it is
> not evil,it is just utterly stupid and trivial.I happen to like Isaac's
> pathetic attempt to memerise the vulgar with his definitions but as for
> quality and substance,Isaac should have stayed studying peebles.
>


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