RE: VMs: Pleiades Occultation Further Date Refinement

[steve ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

Me thinks ES laughed here too :-) IT IS NOT cosmo's.. 
star's.. 
nor astronomy... _the "stars"_ are sucessful 'births' !!! 
a "dot" in the center of a star = male birth! 
 
best to you & yours
-=se=-
steve (fold it / & take it to the bank :-) ekwall

 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:56:05 -0000
 From: Robert Hicks <RHicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 Subject: RE: VMs: Pleiades Occultation Further Date Refinement
 
 Whilst these dates are interesting, I don't feel they are particularly useful.  The 'identification' of the Pleiades has not resulted in a reading of the label next to them, and the dates only go to show that an occultation is so common as to place the event within any 50 years you happen to like.
  
 I tend to think that, like the botanical drawings, the cosmo drawings are, if not totally a work of the imagination, at least grossly inaccurate.  The drawings are crude - the circles rough, the 'straight' lines crooked.  Angles between the 'spokes' in the diagrams seem to have been guesstimated rather than carefully measured.  Drawings of the moon are invariably cosmetic rather than informative.  If there was any serious astronomy going on, more care would have been taken.  There are plenty of examples of 'astronomers' filling out the gaps on their works with random stars, imaginary constellations or superabundant moons, and there's no reason to assume the VMS authors did not do so too. 
  
 Rob
 

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