HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

Considering that it is easier to work with the Earth's heliocentirc
motin as compounded with the motion of the solar system in one
direction around the galactic axis thereby influencing orbital
geometry towards Keplerian motion, the issue of priority for the
ballistic agenda applied to planetary motion now looks similar to
giving praise for the discovery of epicycles.

It all ties together with Flamsteed yet few would have the neccessary
technical competence to see how the double whammy of Flamsteed's
original misconduct and its transfer to Newton's quasi-geocentric
orbital equivalency makes for incredible reading,mangling as it does
just about every astronomical principle known up to then -

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/nk/newton-gravity.htm

The gift of astronomy is just about as precious as it comes and even if
Newton/Flamsteed were consistent with their misconduct and
misjudgements,few today could appreceate exactly how it all unravels
from the view of Copernican heliocentricity and its later refinements.

Why you believe in the stuff you do when the actual astronomical
insights are spectacular and productive is that part I do not
understand,I even make way for the guys in the U.K. to have a crack at
restoring some dignity to an astronomical discipline that now exists in
tatters.

William Blake was right,as an Englishman he seen the impending
empirical wasteland for such is the condition today in this
astrological chat room-

http://www.wga.hu/art/b/blake/02newton.jpg

Let's see if the astronomers can do this year what their colleagues in
the medical proffession do openly for humanity likes nothing more than
to see that conceptual insincerity has no room to thrive under a noble
inheritance.

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Thus spake L (l@astro) unto the assembled multitudes:


TeaTime wrote:
A Happy New Year to everyone here (including Oriel and Larry and all the
other little nutcases). Isaac Newton invented gravity - where would we be
without him? Floating off into space I expect ...


Daft! Newton *discovered* gravity! He didn't invent it!

Daft! Newton formulated gravity, he didn't discover it.

If we're going to start the new year with an attack of pedantry, Newton
created a formal model of reality in which 'gravitation' was a necessary
conceptual invention. That model, has been modified and improved by
subsequent theoretical inventions. I therefore contend that TeaTime
is/are correct in his/her/their use of the word 'invented', subject, of
course, to the groundbreaking contribution and clarification provided by
the mighty Gerald (killfile) Kelleher, who's anocentric view is
admirably expressed in his many succinct and incisive posts.

Happy New Year to all from Denis, who is now tired and emotional, having
consumed an excess of Newcastle Brown ale, in an attempt to achieve a
world record in pupil dilation %-)
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Happy New Year to all from Denis, who is now tired and emotional, having consumed an excess of Newcastle Brown ale, in an
attempt to achieve a world record in pupil dilation %-)

My pupils are huge. Notoriously so. My sister also has somewhat large pupils,
but I think not quite as big as mine. I always get the worst red-eye in flash
photos.

So does this mean my retinae are comparatively insensitive? I don't think so,
but I wonder whether there's a reason for such excessive dilation in lowish-
light environments.

Anyway I rather like that I have big pupils, because people with very small
ones, especially those with very pale blue irises, really scare the bejeesus
out of me!


Martin
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