There's an old saying where I come from: When you're in a hole, stop
digging. Given that, I will just slip into the background.
I'm quite sure that Fernando cannot be the author of that crazy message :
anyway let me take the occasion to say that up to now I've learned a lot of
things thanks to
Congrats to those who track down forgers, spread info on how to do this
(helpful on other lists as well), and in general serve Truth. I wouldn't
expect anything else out of this list.
Bill Thayer
LacusCurtius
http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman
At 07:49 AM 4/15/99 -0400, you wrote:
Dear Friends,
Fernando Cabral visited the unusual sundial at Randolph Air Force Base in
San Antonio Texas recently, and returned with some new photographs,
including one showing the new broken part.
Dear Bob and All
I think the newly found part is
Hello to All.
I hate to start something, but I think that Jim Morrison is a fraud.
I have check his equations for EOT, and I believe that he just made
them up. Here in Brasilia, we have a saying to translate which means,
even a stupid man may be considered wise if he keeps his mouth shut.
Dear Jim,
Congratulations for your reply! I highly appreciate your knowledge and
contributed value to thius list w.r.t. sundials, astrolabes, etc. Please
keep on posting your mails to this list.
Kind regards,
Hans Sassenburg
I'm not sure how to respond. I've never been called a fraud before.
Perhaps it is about time.
At any rate, the primary source for my calculation of the equation of time
is W.M. Smart, Textbook on Spherical Astronomy, Sixth Edition, Dover
(1979), sections 85-91, with additional material from The
I agree with Richard.
I think there is a malicious impostor posing as Fernando. As a 'lurker'
on this this message board, I have looked back over my collection of
postings over several months.
Not only does the message in question come from a different email address
and is missing
From: Fernando Cabral [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Subject: bad people on the list
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 20:24:46 PDT
Hello to All.
I hate to start something, but I think that Jim Morrison is a fraud.
I have check his equations
My apologies to the good folks on the sundial mailing list for having
to put up with the above off-topic administrivia. But knowing how to
determine an e-mail forgery is, sadly, becoming a necessary skill in
today's e-world. I now consider it a must-have tool in one's baloney
detection kit.
Hello All:
I too just read Jim Morrison's EOT equations with great interest but I have
not digested them yet. I don't know if they are true or false. Even if
they are incorrect, that is no reason for Fernando to have lashed out
against Jim. I think Jim has been a valuable and intelligent
Is this really from Fernando? Doesn't sound like it. Note that the posting
did not origniate from his usual e-mail address but from Hot Mail. Do we have
a Fernando imposter?
-- Richard Langley
Professor of Geodesy and Precision Navigation
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Fernando Cabral wrote:
Hello
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