[lit-ideas] Re: Sherlock Holmes on knowledge of the solarsystem
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:12:28 -0700
Andreas wrote, "Check out the demographics for astology.com. It's 80%
female."
Is that an aspersion being cast? I have it on good authority that Andy is
80% female.
Lawrence
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Ramos
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:49 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sherlock Holmes on knowledge of the solarsystem
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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