Re: accruate "sundials"


<geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > instead of gauging the changing
> > > orbital orientation to the Sun you designate a useless axial tilt
> > > component to the Earth against the Sun.
> >
> > WHY is this useless?
>

Do you have an answer to my question?


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