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Re: The Star of Bethlehem and Navigation
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2009 Jan 1, 16:27 +0200
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2009 Jan 1, 16:27 +0200
Ok, Geoffrey, that makes things fairly clear: no chance for a possible "navigational" approach. You wrote: "The ancients did not have clocks as we know them." The time is one thing. I guess that also the dates of the observations may not always be clear and could be off by a day or so. In those days the beginning of the month was determined by the first visibiltiy of the crescent moon as it is still done for the Islamic calender. There exist these days - in the time of computers - various propositions on how this first visibilty can be calculated for a given location. Does the paper you mentioned indicate how they handled this problem? Marcel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
