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Article #4358Re: Sun-Centered? (was: The Flat Earth?)
From: bruce
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 00:00
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>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Christy <christy@rschp2.anu.edu.au> writes: > grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes: >> I quite often think of the earth as flat. While navigating cities >> streets, the approximation is quite useful. It makes the geometry >> simpler to assume that streets running north and south are >> parallel. >> > Doesn't work either here (Canberra, Australia) or in Cambrige, > UK. In both cities, streets that are intuitively parallel turn out > not to be (as a rule in Canberra, they are 45-60 degrees out). In > Cambridge, two of them even meet at a right angle (by the Round > Church). Doesn't work in Madison, either. (Madison being a US city with non-orthogonal streets.) -- Bruce Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation bruce@liverpool.ac.uk University of Liverpool
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f66d0,bfcde2e282b1e94c X-Google-Attributes: gidf66d0,public X-Google-Thread: f44bc,bfcde2e282b1e94c X-Google-Attributes: gidf44bc,public X-Google-Thread: 1038c2,bfcde2e282b1e94c X-Google-Attributes: gid1038c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10b363,bfcde2e282b1e94c X-Google-Attributes: gid10b363,public X-Google-Thread: f74ae,bfcde2e282b1e94c X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,public X-Google-Thread: 10f18e,bfcde2e282b1e94c X-Google-Attributes: gid10f18e,public From: bruce@liverpool.ac.uk Subject: Re: Sun-Centered? (was: The Flat Earth?) Date: 1995/05/15 Message-ID: <BRUCE.95May15144915@iasc3.scm.liv.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 102740315 sender: news@liverpool.ac.uk (News System) references: <3p6kb9$k3j@manuel.anu.edu.au> organization: IASC, University of Liverpool newsgroups: sci.astro,talk.origins,sci.anthropology,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic,aus.religion