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Ch. 5: Who do we have night and day, winter and summer?

#120: May - July 2013 (Non-Fiction)
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Re: Ch. 5: Who do we have night and day, winter and summer?

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I appreciate your summaries, Geo.
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I'm re reading it. I do enjoy the mythical and scientific reasons side by side. To be honest, not having taken science, I didn't realise that a cannonball would still feel heavy in space because it still has mass. Good explanations but still a tendency to talk down to his perceived audience at times. '...but if it confuses you, just forget about it.' etc
I also think the idea of feedback a good one. Just because one does not contribute does not mean that one has not enjoyed the book, in this case because I really don't know much about the subject. I read your article, Robert, but had to look up 'precession' first.
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Hi, I'm something of a gatecrasher on this book which I haven't read.Was intrigued by the question."Why do we have night and day etc? For your amusement, Flann O' Brien wrote a comic masterpiece of fiction, called "The third policeman." The main character is a big fan of a mad scientist called De Selby and he has a theory on this. Quote;It is not clear whether De Selby had heard of this but he suggests that night, far from being caused by the commonly accepted theory of planetary movements, was due to accumulations of black air produced by certain volcanic activities of which he does not treat in detail.
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