On May 28, 10:05 am, Mike Collins <
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> "Lord Androcles, Zeroth Earl of Medway" <LordAndroc...@May2013.edu> wrote:
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What gives you the right along with all the other empiricists to deny
the fundamental system which links the 24 hour AM/PM system to the 360
degree Lat/Long system by way of the rotation of the Earth ?.You lot
have been getting away with murder for so long and the only reason you
can pinpoint your spot East to West on the planet is because accurate
watches were developed on the principle that the Earth rotates on
average 24 hours for each cycle based on 1461 rotations in a
365/365/365/366 cycle format whether it is days or rotations.
Your empirical system is a complete failure,you may not know or want
to know it but common sense will eventually prevail -
"The application of a Timekeeper to this discovery is founded upon the
following principles: the earth's surface is divided into 360 equal
parts (by imaginary lines drawn from North to South) which are called
Degrees of Longitude; and its daily revolution Eastward round its own
axis is performed in 24 hours; consequently in that period, each of
those imaginary lines or degrees, becomes successively opposite to the
Sun (which makes the noon or precise middle of the day at each of
those degrees;) and it must follow, that from the time any one of
those lines passes the Sun, till the next passes, must be just four
minutes, for 24 hours being divided by 360 will give that quantity; so
that for every degree of Longitude we sail Westward, it will be noon
with us four minutes the later, and for every degree Eastward four
minutes the sooner, and so on in proportion for any greater or less
quantity. Now, the exact time of the day at the place where we are,
can be ascertained by well known and easy observations of the Sun if
visible for a few minutes at any time from his being ten degrees high
until within an hour of noon, or from an hour after noon until he is
only 10 degrees high in the afternoon; if therefore, at any time when
such observation is made, a Timekeeper tells us at the same moment
what o'clock it is at the place we sailed from, our Longitude is
clearly discovered." John Harrison
http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info_sheets_john_harrison.htm
The treachery of those people who hated Harrison lives on in you
Collins,that festering viciousness that tries to take the good out of
astronomy and makes it incomprehensible to the wider population using
nothing more than voodoo and a mean spirited attitude.