Posted in Uncategorised on August 31, 2005 | 1 Comment »
…or I could possibly be working on other stuff.
No proper post today. I did want to put up something on Debi’s question about how do you get someone to take a claim seriously if you’re not an academic. The answer’s taking a fair amount of thought so it won’t be up today. I’ve not even [...]
Posted in Ancient History on August 30, 2005 | No Comments »
It is a cold day and the crowd are restless. They have sat through two comedies of dubious quality. Even through their cushions they can feel the cold of the marble reaching for their posteriors. The weak sun has been falling to the west for a few hours. Since the start of the war there [...]
Posted in Vidi on August 29, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I’ve finally found the Careers’ Day poster Leicester did accept.
You can see the poster they rejected here.
Posted in Astronomy, tagged Star Names on August 29, 2005 | 1 Comment »
α, 4, pale yellow; β, Binary, 4 and 6, greenish and dusky
The strange names Sualocin and Rotanev first appeared for these stars in the Palermo Catalogue of 1814, and long were a mystery to all, and seemingly a great puzzle to Smyth, which he perhaps never solved, although he was very intimate with the staff [...]
Posted in Astronomy, tagged Star Names on August 28, 2005 | No Comments »
…the Delphienus heit
Up in the aire.
King James I in Ane Schort Poeme of Tyme
Dusky Dolphins. Photo by Boncey.
Delphinus
is Dauphin in France, Delfino in Italy, and Delphin in Germany: all from the Greek Δελφίς and Δελφίν, transcribed by the Latins as Delphis and Delphin. This last continued current through the 17th century, and in our day [...]
Posted in Uncategorised on August 28, 2005 | No Comments »
…after a fashion anyway. I still have plenty of writing to do, so I haven’t the faintest idea how much I’ll be adding over the next week or so. Star-Names-wise I plan to skip on to Delphinus before rolling back to Apus and moving on again. It’s also feasible that William Hutton’s diary of his [...]
Posted in Archaeology on August 23, 2005 | No Comments »
The drawback with both dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating is that they rely in the preservation of organic material. In waterlogged sites like Flag Fen, or in the arid climes of the Sahara, such material is frequently preserved for thousands of years. However many sites preservation of organic material is at best patchy. To dendro-date a [...]
Posted in My Research on August 21, 2005 | 3 Comments »
At least not by me. Richard Hinckley Allen is good till Saturday.
I’m away in Oxford for the week where’ll I’ll be in the Sackler Library with my laptop and scanner and possibly a second keyboard*. What I won’t have is internet access. I could register the laptop for wireless access, but that seems like a [...]
Posted in Archaeology on August 21, 2005 | No Comments »
Radiocarbon dating is a product of the nuclear age. The work is based upon research by Willard F. Libby, who was looking at the effects cosmic rays have upon the atmosphere (Aitken 1990:56). Cosmic rays ejected from the sun strike the earth in the upper atmosphere, the majority of earth’s atmosphere is nitrogen and it [...]
Posted in Archaeology on August 19, 2005 | No Comments »
Dendrochronology is the dating of artefacts through the use of tree rings, and was originally pioneered by A. Douglass, for astronomical research (Michels 1973: 115-6). The principle behind dendro-dating is that trees add an extra ring of growth to their trunk for each year they are alive. The width of this ring is dependent on [...]
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