[lit-ideas] Re: Sherlock Holmes on knowledge of the solar system and the workings of the brain
- From: "Paul Stone" <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:34:35 -0400
What I'd like to see is a model where you could lift up the sun off
its post, turn the whole thing upside down, put the earth down on the
same post, and crank out "Ptolomeic" mathematical orbits.)
There is apparently a Ptolemaic orrery at the Birmingham Museum of
Science, so... if you are ever in the UK.
p
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