Lepper said Platt David, are you punning again? (You know, of course, that on this side of the Atlantic puns are considered "bad taste".) "Platt," as in "zoned...
JohnHolthouse@...
Dec 1, 2006 11:31 am
10801
Thanks, Duane! A couple of things occur to me in the same connection. The evolution myth has taught us moderns to imagine that WE KNOW IT ALL, and that the...
Not guilty, John! Appalled Tipster PS Must go and help my new housemaid with her contemplative exercises. Lepper said Platt David, are you punning again? (You...
An Ancient Greek Computer In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now...
Thanks John, I now know what THAT word means and I promise not to forget it. Strangely I picked it up from one of Sankara's commentaries, and sorted it out....
Pete Dello
pete_dello@...
Dec 1, 2006 5:57 pm
10806
The clockwork computer Sep 19th 2002 From The Economist print edition An ancient piece of clockwork shows the deep roots of modern technology WHEN a Greek...
To the Members of the BIBAL Group and Colleagues This is to let you know that thoroughly revised versions of my Introductions to the 5 books of the Psalter, as...
C.J. Labuschagne
labuschagne.cj@...
Dec 1, 2006 7:29 pm
10808
Many thanks, Casper! I'll go to your website now. David...
JohnH, Please cut-and-paste your document on "Synecdoche" and post it on the BIBAL Forum so that others have access to it. ... In the attachment I explain...
Pete, if you are serious I'd suggest "tonal month" for 60/30, human lifetime for 120, your 'tribal" for 180, but "Babylon" for 720 (so named as middle of the...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Dec 1, 2006 7:58 pm
10811
Ernest, here is a jewel of a message, concentrated and full of meat. Many thanks. David Pete, if you are serious I'd suggest "tonal month" for 60/30, human...
David, I shoud have said (I believe) 864 for the hated Marduk and beloved Temple Candlestick, turning the enemy into a bright light in a Jewish musical...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Dec 1, 2006 11:55 pm
10813
David, I'm trying again. Marduk is the monstrous creator of the Mesopotamian Universe, now disciplined in Israel as "head candle" of the Temple lampstand of...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Dec 2, 2006 1:15 am
10814
Thanks, Ernest, and in return I should promise to stop misspelling 'Schenectady'. You speak of 'turning the enemy into a bright light'. That reminds me of...
David, If I understand rightly, Satan is always conceived in the near region of the square root of 2, this is "Haephestus forge" for Homer, hell for later...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Dec 2, 2006 2:38 am
10816
Duane, Well, it's a little profane .... John ... From: dlc@... To: bibal@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 2:45 PM Subject: Fw: [bibal] RE:...
JohnHolthouse@...
Dec 2, 2006 9:06 am
10817
John, Could you send me this directly? Your pictures get stripped from my BIBAL e-mail, and I'm interested. Ernest ... From: JohnHolthouse@... To:...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Dec 2, 2006 10:40 am
10818
Ernest, Okay. There are no pictures, just text. John...
JohnHolthouse@...
Dec 2, 2006 3:42 pm
10819
John, if you can put the rest of your thesis in as clear and down to earth way I think all our problems are at an end. Pete From: JohnHolthouse@......
Pete Dello
pete_dello@...
Dec 2, 2006 4:50 pm
10820
Boys, sorry if you think that the BBC story which follows is irrelevant to our field of study, but it has parallels with some of what we do, bringing 'extinct'...
Pete and John: And 24/17=1.4117 is YHWH's final "improvement" over 45/32 = 1.40625 as square root 2 approximation near 6:00 o'clock, which is the octave...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Dec 2, 2006 8:34 pm
10822
I look forward very much to that, Ernest. I've read through carefully what you have released so far. Pete P.S. I'm taking Neugebauer to read in bed tonite to...
Pete Dello
pete_dello@...
Dec 2, 2006 10:12 pm
10823
Pete, It's the somewhat later Babylonian root that he decodes, and I haven't found any evidence yet that Sumer knew it. When we get this all on the same table...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Dec 3, 2006 1:23 am
10824
... Ernest-- that's exactly right, I think. The whole of the ancient art Plato describes (eg in the 7th Letter) is a mixture between precision and blur. ......
... John: this is a truly Excellent Idea. Nothing like a Primer to suggest that a discipline is actually learnable. I wonder how we ought to go about it.......
Bryan, Hold fast to this argument, we need it desperately. Very different views are being broadcast widely. Every craftsman knows (or learns) what and how much...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Dec 3, 2006 4:27 am
10827
I'm now wondering whether it's necessary (nobody asks questions anymore), but if I'm to do a harmonics course for BIBAL I would like to have a glossary at...
Pete Dello
pete_dello@...
Dec 3, 2006 7:13 am
10828
Pete, Well, I'm going to try! It's easier said than done. John ... From: pete_dello@... To: bibal@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:45 AM ...
JohnHolthouse@...
Dec 3, 2006 8:06 am
10829
Pete, One thing, I believe, is extremely important ... the various "octaves," etc. By that I mean the 30/60, 180/90, and the like. Each of these octaves is, in...
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