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Hello Martin, I thought I had two books by Gansten in stock, one on Primaries, the other mentioning Blagrave, but can now only find the one on primaries. Apologies. I am not an academic but a conceptualist. I am often a horse's ass as a result. I will change opinions on the spot when better work is ...

Indeed

Don't think that Martin cares for me, as I panned both of his books. Martin might take comfort in the fact that his two books outsell my three. Anytime an author does better than his critic, he's obviously a better writer. And has a better publisher. I got here this morning by roundabout means. Am f...

Ptolemy and midnight

Dear Deb, You are Ptolemy. You want to find midnight. You have a SUNDIAL. You have a WATERCLOCK. I think it would be a good exercise for Hellenists to construct simple astrological tools and then calibrate and use them. A sundial is basically a stick in the ground. The bigger the stick, the more acc...

Hello Deb, I really expected better from you. I will put it down to a sheer lapse of brain power that you attribute a midnight start as far back as Ptolemy.

Apologies to have troubled you.

Time and law

Thanks for the link. It was similar to what I have read elsewhere. Underlying the 1884 standard was the 1880 convention, where time zones and the international date line were established. In 1880 there were no laws changed. From the link: In Britain, the use of the 24-hour clock in daily life has gr...

I see you are correct. My apologies. I had thought the following observation was new. From pg. 17 of the text, link above: At any rate, there is no evidence of the existence of a Greek text in prose from which Sphujidhvaja versi?ed, as Pingree claimed. To sum up, the most we can say in the absence o...

Yavana Jataka

Hello Martin, if you've got evidence the ancient treated prose and poetry the same way we do, you should refer me to it. Modern people assume their books are triumphant. I question assumptions. When the Yavana Jataka was versified there was a pre-existing oral tradition in India, and we have two clu...

When does the day begin?

It is always such a treat to be here on Skyscript, I forget why I came. I am a small boy in a candy store. I came for this: While I read charts by whatever means comes to hand (being essentially scatterbrained), I am coming to this simple procedure: The sign on the ascendant has a ruling planet. Tha...

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