are oval and the earth is
tilted. And, as you said, they rarely press for more information.
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- Original Message -
From: John Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: Keeping it simple
To avoid confusing my
I believe that the simplified explanation of these concepts is very
important. Complex scientific overloading, however accurate, can
easily intimidate the casual user of one of our creations, to the
point of actually making them give up or lose interest in
understanding the concept at
, 2002 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: Keeping it simple
I believe that the simplified explanation of these concepts is very
important. Complex scientific overloading, however accurate, can
easily intimidate the casual user of one of our creations, to the
point of actually making them give up or lose
Hello All,
Anselmo Prez Serrada wrote:
Then I tried to explain him this curious fact by
saying "Imagine you
could see the Earth from the Sun: then, the Earth
spins around itself not every 24h00m but every 23h56m, blah, blah,
blah
As the Earth's axis is tilted towards the North Star,
you do not
