Re: Sachs/Hunger: VAT4956 misrep exposed to British Museum

To Teatime

The one thing that distinguishes Newton from numbskulls that follow
him,such as yourself, was his consistency in his descriptions even as
he eventually lapses into misconduct and vandalism.

"Absolute time, in astronomy, is distinguished from relative, by the
equation or correlation of the vulgar time. For the natural days are
truly unequal, though they are commonly considered as equal and used
for a measure of time; astronomers correct this inequality for their
more accurate deducing of the celestial motions. "

http://members.tripod.com/~gravitee/definitions.htm#time

Over the centuries as the 17th century analemmatic fudge took hold, at
the expense of the Equation of Time, the cataloguing and theoretical
guys came to consider the rotation of the Earth to absolute
space,inertial space or otherwise 23 hours 56 min 04 sec to be
something actual hence theorists like Mach had'nt a clue what
absolute/relative time refers to -

Mach: on Newton's Absolute Time


"This absolute time can be measured by comparison with no motion; it
has therefore neither a practical nor a scientific value; and no one
is justified in saying that he knows aught about it. It is an idle
metaphysical conception."
Mach, Analyse der Empfindungen, 6th ed.


I actually enjoy ,at least up to a point, how Newton acquired his
geocentric/heliocentric orbital equivalency from the value of 23 hours
56 min 04 sec even as it represents misconduct but I assure you the
Earth rotates through 360 degrees in 24 hours exactly for the
pre-Copernican transfer to its heliocentric adaption of indepdendent
axial rotation with the Equation of Time as a common denominator cannot
alter the association between axial rotation,the pace of clocks and
terrestial longitudes.

So Teatime,the first bit of framehopping was attributing a direct value
for the rotation of the Earth through 360 degrees to the Sun in 24
hours exactly (it does'nt hence the Equation of Time) and attributing a
celestial sphere/calendrical average to the rotation of the Earth
through 360 degrees to the stellar background in 23 hours 56 min 04
sec.

Again,at least Newton was consistent in his misconduct,you otoh and
just plain silly and it shows .

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