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The completion of the calendrical year (1461 days)
One of the sublime human achievements is the creation of the equable
24 hour day and subsequently the calculation of the annual orbital cycle of 365 days 5 hours 49 minutes,the great timekeeping astronomers then attached the fraction to the nearest 24 hour day and subsequently we have the 1461 day calendrical cycle of 3 years of 365 days and 1 year of 366 days.The ability to take a natural orbital cycle and transfer it to a linear system of years. The great calendrical convenience was never meant to encompass the system which creates the 24 hour day out of the inequalities of natural noon and transfer it to constellational geometry and its apparent motion for otherwise it becomes an act of vandalism against the great timekeeping astronomers. When a star returns to the same position 3 minutes 56 seconds earlier on Feb 29th when using the 24 hours from Feb 28th,it must cross a good person's mind that there is a lovely interlocking and intricate system created by people in antiquity and refined by civilisation after civilisation until ours. There is no need for timekeeping astronomy to dictate structural astronomy,the last great adaption was the transfer of the equable 24 hour cycle to axial rotation as a convenient 'constant' thereby allowing watches to be used to measure distance at 4 minutes for 1 degree of geographical seperation making 24 hours circling the 360 degree planet.It was a mistake to use clocks to gauge axial rotation to the motion of the celestial sphere and it is on Feb 29th that the mistake becomes most apparent. Celebrate the leap correction as a great convenience,something that honors the astronomers from antiquity and do so as astronomers. |
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