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Old December 2nd 17, 05:22 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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Default The Equation of Time(keeping)

On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 1:43:01 AM UTC, palsing wrote:

The only error is your own interpretation of what Newton had to say...


Newton tried his hand at the Equation of Time(keeping) by calling the components absolute/relative time -

"Absolute time, in astronomy, is distinguished from relative, by the equation of 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...The necessity of which equation, for determining the times of a phænomenon, is evinced as well from the experiments of the pendulum clock, as by eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter." Principia

You should be delighted to finally discover what Newton was muttering about but having your brains rotted by early 20th century relativity built on chanting voodoo about Newton's absolute/relative time is not helpful. All you know is that this newsgroup is now a blank sheet that theorists and celestial sphere enthusiasts like yourself avoid.