On Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 8:30:01 PM UTC+1, Mike Collins wrote:


This shows that Augustine, unlike you understood that circumpolar rotation
is the true rotation of the Earth. All he needed to leap right past your
limited and warped understanding was an accurate clock.

The danger of Royal Society empiricism , much like Brexit, is it emerged from the university subculture in Britain and no appeal to reason will change their blinkered attitude as they bluff and bluster their way.

A person capable of using their intelligence will recognise that the RA/Dec framework is in competition with the Lat/Long system for the basic answer to the question 'How long does it take the Earth to turn once ?'. The reasonable answer is once in 24 hours with quite a long explanation covering timekeeping from its emergence in antiquity to demonstrate the rules which tie cyclical timekeeping to cyclical dynamics to a close approximation.

Once the careless Royal Society boys tried to bypass the Sun and the day/night cycle for rotation, cause and effect was lost. If theorists require the Earth to turn once in a value other than 24 hours to hang their agenda and conclusions on then by gosh, the Earth will do their bidding regardless of how ridiculous it is.

( You could have used any other thread to give a similar response but I suppose you are baiting the American)