Hi Geoff,
Your most interesting ‘penumbral’ comment also raises another possibility that
this could be a tad more interesting if we can believe a ‘throw away’, and not
fully explained, comment about the monument which suggests a question that
there might be still more to the design than we tho
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> Hi Simon,
>
> You are not the only one who loathes this helpful feature. I almost threw
> my Samsung Android phone against a wall and jumped on it in sheer frustration
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Dear Roger,
Thank you for your comments on the John Dee
implementation of the Omar Khayyam calendar.
> At one longitude, 77° W, the equinox
> would always be on the same day. Is this
> God's Longitude?
Yes. At that longitude the vernal equinox
would invariably fall on 21 March.
Sadly, this is
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Dear Geoff,
As so often, you cause me to reflect a
little and to refine my analysis...
> I wonder if the errors might be masked
> by the 32 arc minute solar penumbra.
In pondering this "instrument" I made
the naive assumption