Hunters need to know when the sun comes up. And when it goes down.Did you know that, on the Winter Solstice (The Shortesr Day), we have neither the earliest sunset nor the latest sunrise? Just the shortest time between sunrise and sunset.The earliest sunset occurs about two weeks before the Solstice and the latest sunrise occurs around January 4.Why izzat? A) Not true, but ye have to say that to pass Astronomy. B) By order of The Pope. 3) Because of the Earth's elliptical orbit and the resulting changing angular velocity , and the resulting changing declination angle relative to the Sun. 4) It is the Will of Allah.
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Hunters need to know when the sun comes up. And when it goes down.Did you know that, on the Winter Solstice (The Shortesr Day),
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Of course a sophisticated and educated person who attended the University of Alabama also knows that it partly B as well.
Butt I'll explain for the benefit of others...
Up until Copernicus' time (1500's AD), people were only allowed to think in terms of Ptolemy's Earth-Centered Universe.
Copernicus played the political side as well as proving the heliocentric solar system.
He got the Pope's blessing, enabling subsequent (nearly simultaneous) discoveries that explained the solstices, among other phenomena.
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Still, bad things happened if ya kicked too many sacred cows:
"1548 – February 17, 1600) (Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus), born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, astrologer and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model: while supporting its heliocentrism, he also correctly proposed that the Sun was just another star moving in space, and claimed as well that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited worlds populated by other intelligent beings.[1] The Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy, and he was burned at the stake.[2]"
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He can't say he didn't get a fair trial. It lasted about seven years. Longer than the OJ trial.
And most of the charges against him involved expressing opinions contrary to the teachings of the church (including the virginity of Mary), and had nothing to do with cosmology.
He got off light:-)
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