Instances of Compelling DIO Discoveries
Which Have Met Revealingly Pathetic Incomprehension
By the AAS' History-of-Astronomy Cult
The following solutions have been on the record for many years.
Some have even appeared in highly prominent journals and forums.
But most of the history-of-astronomy center is not technically
and-or emotionally capable of coping
with the obviousness of the triumphs of long-resented unorthodoxy,
achieved by those whose scientific skills have so often
embarrassed
that selfsame seething centrist cult.
DIO's failure to enlighten the unenlightenable is not surprising.
But to see the dim determined to stay heart-wrenchingly dim
is a needless spectacle,
since concurrent competing displays have rendered it superfluous,
e.g., the White House, the US' public school system, etc.
Several examples follow.
(See also $1000 challenges at
DIO 11.2 [2003]
p.33. And the long list of eminent-historian slips at
DIO 4.1 [1994]
‡4 §A [p.48], none retracted by anyone but
the best of the field, Alex Jones.)
Aubrey Diller-DR solution for the Hipparchos-Strabo klimata table.
(DIO 4.2 [1994]
p.56 Table 1.)
The Hipparchos parallax sign-error, which (very) neatly explains
one of the most perplexing discrepancies (over a full degree)
in Hipparchos' output. Error repeated modernly by J.Evans.
(DIO 1.3 [1991]
n.288 [p.173].)
Eratosthenes & Poseidonios Earth-Sizes: hugely disparate,
yet both's errors (1 part in 6, positive & negative, resp)
neatly explained by same theory: distortion due to horizontal light-rays'
atmospheric-refraction-curvature, which equals 1/6 of Earth's curvature.
(DIO 6.1 [1996]
‡1 n.47 [p.11].)
Both hitherto-mysterious Hipparchos lunar numbers, 3144 & 3122 1/2,
are found to have a startlingly cohesive
— and historically revealing — common solution,
to the full (extremely high) precision displayed.
(DIO 1.3 [1991]
§§O2&O3 [pp.160-161] eqs.23&24.
See also H.Thurston's intelligent discussion of this finding
in the History of Science Society's Isis —
vol.93 #1 pp.58-69 [2002].)
DR showed that
Pliny's circuli
came from a clever ancient linear fit to Mediterranean data computed
from sph trig. This theory then led on to a perfect solution
of Pliny's otherwise wildly disparate
Rhodos klima.
Solution of Hipparchos' mis-latitude of Carthage is
consistent
with same odd explanation for Alexandria's mis-latitude
— in the very same paragraph of Pliny.
Aristarchos' Great Year solution
and possession of the precise Babylonian month.
(Alter Orient und Altes Testament 297:295; and simultaneously
DIO 11.2 [2003]
‡1 eqs.12&13.)