The great Western adaption

Our timekeeping ancestors devised a system whereby they created an
equable day and then applied it to the annual cycle,from there they
devised the calendar system which enables one year to follow the next
year with the effect that the convenience breaks clear of the
astronomical cycles and allows humanity to gauge a linear progression
of years.The convenience is based on a 1461 day cycle with 3 years of
365 days and 1 year of 366 days with minor differences.The antiquity of

the system can be gauged by the Gregorian correction which returns the
calendrical convenience to its celestial sphere marker -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform


Apart from the calendar,the seperate system which correlates clocks
with axial rotation at a rate of precisely 4 minutes for each degree
of terrestrial rotation needs a thorough and accurate explanation,if
only for the appreciation of the exquisite and intricate two step
process which makes it possible.


The Total length of the day as observed for each complete cycle
determined by noon is known to be different since antiquity .By
whatever means they collected the data ,they equalised the variations
in these cycles to an equable 24 hour cycle by applying a correction
each noon using addition or subtraction of minutes and seconds to
generate the 24 hour average.It also allows one 24 hour day to elapse
seamlessly into the next 24 hour day and it was this vital piece of
information which was exploited by the heliocentric astronomers who
existed after 1543.


As Copernicus split the Earth's motions into axial and orbital
motions,the explanation of axial rotation to account for the daily
cycle became the basis for geometrically overlaying the longitude
system by dividing the geographical surface into 1 degree seperations
making 360 degrees in total.
The pre-existing Equation of Time system which generates the equable 24

hour day was then overlayed on the longitude divisions where 4 minutes
clock time correlate to 1 degree of rotation making 24 hours/360
degrees in total.


After,or probably equal to,the Copernican resolution for
retrogrades,the heliocentric adaption of the equable day to axial
rotation is the most exquisite and enjoyable achievements of
humanity.Claiming nothing other than the sheer joy in seeing how the
correlation between clocks and axial rotation emerged as a two step
process,a more capable person can explain how it was done even in the
hostile enviroment which proposes an alternative value based on the
return of a star to a location.

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