I have been playing a bit with the equations for a bifilar dial trying to
reproduce the bifilar polar dial that I saw in your web. There you say
that the transversal gnomon is a piece of hyperbola, but I have found
that it is really a piece of ellipse (there are more solutions, but none
is an h
Hi Roger,
It's amazing that your story reminded me of an expression my father
used to use -- a blowhard. A blowhard is person that tries to force
their idea purely by the vociferousness of their manner. Blowfish and
blowhard have the same number of letters in their spelling.
-cheers
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Hi John,
I heard an interview the other day with Wade Davis, an ethno-botanist
explorer, author and writer for the National Geographic. As a botanist who
has travelled and worked in Latin America, I thought you might be
interested.
The Blowfish has an interesting way of handling a perceived thre
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
In his final comments Mr. Hunt quoted two of my recent remarks, the first
of which is snipped to omit the simple question viz. 'would a vertical
pylon yield acceptable accuracy with his 'unique' design?' An innocent
omission or a fudged issue?..now we will never kn
