Determining 24 hour clock noon via natural noon.
- From: oriel36 <kelleher.gerald@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 9 May 2007 03:37:39 -0700
" Draw a Meridian line upon a floor (the manner of doing which is
sufficiently known; and note, that the utmost exactness herein is not
necessary:) and then hang two plummets, each by a small thred or wire,
directly over the said Meridian, at the distance of some 2. feet or
more one from the other, as the smalness of the thred will admit. When
the middle of the Sun (the Eye being placed so, as to bring both the
threds into one line) appears to be in the same line exactly (for the
better and more secure discerning whereof, you must be furnish't with
a glass of a dark colour, or somewhat blackt with the smoak of a
Candle,) you are then immediately to set the Watch, not precisely to
the hour of 12. but by so much less, as is the Aequation of the day by
the Table"
http://www.xs4all.nl/~adcs/Huygens/06/kort-E.html
Monday elapses into Tuesday and then elapses into Wednesday by this
means as the Equation of Time correction provides not just the
standard pace of the daily cycle as 24 hours/86 400 seconds but also
keeps these cycles turning constantly and fixed to noon.It was these
two features which Huygens makes use of as the average 24 hour day was
transfered to 'constant 'axial cycle thereby allowing the great
correlation that keeps clocks and axial rotation in sync and allow a
geographic seperation of 4 minutes clock time for each degree of
geographical seperation.
The dismay of seeing the dominance of the astrological justification*
as opposed to the gorgeous views which Huygens represents hardly
compensates from the fact that everybody today uses the principles
which were devised by pre-Copernican and heliocentric astronomers,the
former creating the equable 24 hour day and the latter exploiting the
existing Equation of Time system to keep clocks and axial rotation in
sync at 15 degrees per hour.
Why would individuals choose to go with a creationist-type version of
the axial cycle dictated by the human devised principles of the 24
hour day and clocks. in the form, of the justification of the 23 hour
56 minute 04 second value by using the axial and orbital motions of
the Earth ?.
Surely there is one successful person out there with a sense that a
serious,serious situation exists .All are astronomers by virtue that
the axial and orbital cycles make existence possible and astronomy has
rightly been held in the highest regard since humans started to take
notice of and mark off these cycles.That this present generation would
reject what has been known for millenia and not recognise the natural
inequality in the daily cycle is bewildering and the 'sidereal'
justification forces a location on Earth to rotate to the Sun in 24
hours exactly -
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time
What can I say !,what have the great astronomers done to deserve
having their works destroyed,not just Huygens,Copernicus,Kepler but
also the great astronomical timekeepers who devised the systems which
everybody uses today ?.
Where does the neccessary responsibility come from or the actual
authority that exists to recognise that the dominance of a cartoon
framework for the Earth's motions is incredibly counter-productive for
climatological studies.Perhaps I have tried too hard but what choice
is there when the only thing that counts for individuals here is theri
optics and magnification exercise.
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