Re: Winds order

On Jul 19, 1:20?am, al <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Directions in MJ play are in reversed order (i.e. ESWN
counterclockwise) because the game of MJ was created at a time when
ESWN counterclockwise was thought to be the correct order and that
would have been quite correct if it was the SUN that revolves around
the EARTH as believed in the whole world at one time.

In other words the Chinese MJ (Sparrow) game creator still believed
the earth was stationary and the sun was revolving around it
counterclockwise when he designed the game, because the anomaly of
reversed order of ESWN directions in MJ play can be simply explained
by a geocentric system. That is ESWN CCW (counterclockwise) was the
proper order if the sun was revolving around the earth and the earth
was the center of the universe as people believed prior to the
seventeenth century.

Hello Allan. I think you mean if the earth were stationary in space
but was still rotating anticlockwise on its axis. Thus the sun, in an
anticlockwise orbit would be seen by an observer on the earth as
rising in the east and setting in the west?

Is this the geocentric model you are describing?

I am still perplexed by your ESWN. Do you mean that under this model
the sun goes from east to west, or, in winter it would at least seem
to be going ESW, which would be in a clockwise progression - not
anticlockwise?

Cheers
Michael


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