tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932831182639117728.post7349069134264194769..comments2023-10-26T07:27:24.375-06:00Comments on St. Monica's Kneeler: Weekend Kneeler JeopardyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932831182639117728.post-79714434761048580292009-07-06T06:46:26.389-06:002009-07-06T06:46:26.389-06:00Check out Vincenzo's blog, Sancte Pater, for s...Check out Vincenzo's blog, <a href="http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Sancte Pater</a>, for some great pics of San Petronio.swissmisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11091563100968996825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932831182639117728.post-73058929063795238282009-07-05T17:40:44.754-06:002009-07-05T17:40:44.754-06:00You guys are good!
AA has it again -- observatori...You guys are good!<br /><br />AA has it again -- observatories. From the book by Thomas Woods, Jr., How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, p. 111-112: "The Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini, a student of the Jesuits Riccioloi and Grimaldi, used the observatory at the splendid Bascilica of San Petronio in Bologna to lend support to Kepler's model. Here we see an important way in which the Church contributed to astronomy that is all but unknown today: Cathedrals in Bologna, Florence, Paris and Rome were designed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to function as world-class solar observatories. Nowhere in the world were there more precise instruments for the study of the sun. Each such cathedral contained holes through which sunlight could enter and time lines (or meridian lines) on the floor. It was by observing the path traced out by the sunlight on these lines that researchers could obtain accurate measurements of time and predict equinoxes. (They could also make accurate calculations of the proper dates for Easter -- the key initial function of these observatories.)swissmisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11091563100968996825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932831182639117728.post-45384301325964882342009-07-05T07:48:30.056-06:002009-07-05T07:48:30.056-06:00What are scientific/philosophical discussions meet...What are scientific/philosophical discussions meetings?Laura The Crazy Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08904542599983127845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932831182639117728.post-20840223389159069702009-07-03T21:50:23.421-06:002009-07-03T21:50:23.421-06:00What are observatories?What are observatories?ArchAngel's Advocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00475482633072586712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932831182639117728.post-88873632999404341502009-07-03T20:49:58.370-06:002009-07-03T20:49:58.370-06:00Not concerts or coronations. AA is dancing around...Not concerts or coronations. AA is dancing around it :)swissmisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11091563100968996825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932831182639117728.post-23512269357256468932009-07-02T18:23:14.600-06:002009-07-02T18:23:14.600-06:00or calendars?or calendars?ArchAngel's Advocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00475482633072586712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932831182639117728.post-2115760525607388742009-07-02T18:22:44.089-06:002009-07-02T18:22:44.089-06:00What are sundials?What are sundials?ArchAngel's Advocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00475482633072586712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932831182639117728.post-24242649703792596182009-07-02T16:52:36.143-06:002009-07-02T16:52:36.143-06:00What are coronations?What are coronations?Laura The Crazy Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08904542599983127845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932831182639117728.post-26701034518017591712009-07-02T16:42:29.995-06:002009-07-02T16:42:29.995-06:00What are concerts?What are concerts?Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07865614471400711543noreply@blogger.com