Re: Will this end the hoaxters??

On Jul 4, 4:37 pm, oriel36 <kelleher.ger...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What can any race of people possibly gain from distorting the
reasoning which links an astronomer such as Huygens to the inventor
that is Harrison through the references that link daily rotation to
the Sun -

"Draw a Meridian line upon a floor 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 ( 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."

I agree that the day is 24 hours long on average. But there is no
external reference for the Earth turning in a uniform manner with a
period of 24 hours. The Sun is the reference for the unequal natural
noon cycle only.

What we gain from considering the uniform motion that does have a
reference as the Earth's rotation is an ability to understand where
the Equation of Time comes from.

John Savard
.

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