Re: The Relativistic Myth.

From: Harry (harald.vanlintel_at_epfl.ch)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:54:33 +0200

"Androcles" <androc1es@nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1fGZc.1652$PS2.24680489@news-text.cableinet.net...
> I agree with most of what you said, Len, with one exception.
> Einstein do not start the lies: Ptolemy did.
>
> The most recent accusations of forgery made against Ptolemy came from
Newton
> in [12]. He begins this book by stating clearly his views:-
>
> This is the story of a scientific crime. ... I mean a crime committed by a
> scientist against fellow scientists and scholars, a betrayal of the ethics
> and integrity of his profession that has forever deprived mankind of
> fundamental information about an important area of astronomy and history.
>
> Towards the end Newton, having claimed to prove every observation claimed
by
> Ptolemy in the Almagest was fabricated, writes [12]:-
>
> [Ptolemy] developed certain astronomical theories and discovered that they
> were not consistent with observation. Instead of abandoning the theories,
he
> deliberately fabricated observations from the theories so that he could
> claim that the observations prove the validity of his theories. In every
> scientific or scholarly setting known, this practice is called fraud, and
it
> is a crime against science and scholarship.
> http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ptolemy.html

Interesting!

> Be prepared for 1400 years of Relativity. Only 1300 to go.

You are far too pessimistic. Quite a number of scientists are looking for
flaws, don't worry!

Harald

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