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Old 30-September-2003, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by oriel36
It is actually enjoyable to see so many link the Earth's rotation to circumpolar motion or 23 hrs 56 min,sort of like watching creationists go about things,too simpleminded to be of any use yet amazing to see the lenghts to distract that accurate clocks were developed via the EoT to reflect axial rotation through 360 degrees in 24 hours exactly.
Uh ... you do realize, don't you, that in Sir Isaac Newton's time they didn't have accurate clocks? It took a couple of centuries before anyone invented a mechanical clock that didn't lose or gain a few minutes each day.
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