[lit-ideas] Re: Sherlock Holmes on knowledge of the solarsystem
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:49:12 -0700
Ed,
Check out the demographics for astology.com. It's 80% female.
Or do facts not work in your world? Is the earth in the center of your solar
system? :-)
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Gleason" <EGLEASON@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:47 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sherlock Holmes on knowledge of the solarsystem
To a bored housewife or a local detective in London, there isn't a need to
know what is outside their mental horizons.
Even astrologers need to know this so they can draw up their charts for
the
housewives. Every teenage girl uses the complexities of astrology to know
who to pick for a date. Phil has the wrong astrological sign? That's why
he's lonely on Friday nights. Now he knows.
Andreas,
Could I come over sometime to borrow a cup of misogyny?
And, furthermore, observation is the only way one would determine
our position in the solar system. Not by the observation
of the Sun, but by observations of the retrograde planetary motion
and, after the development of telescopy, the phases of inferior planets.
It was difficult to reconcile these observations with the geocentric
model,
hence the development and eventual acceptance of the heliocentric model.
Cheers
Edward
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