59. Days and nights should be of equal length all year long on a spherical Earth
“Quoting Gabrielle Henriet, “The theory of the rotation of the earth may once and for all be definitely disposed of as impracticable by pointing out the following inadvertence. It is said that the rotation takes twenty-four hours and that its speed is uniform, in which case, necessarily, days and nights should have an identical duration of twelve hours each all the year round. The sun should invariably rise in the morning and set in the evening at the same hours, with the result that it would be the equinox every day from the 1st of January to the 31st of December. One should stop and reflect on this before saying that the earth has a movement of rotation. How does the system of gravitation account for the seasonal variations in the lengths of days and nights if the earth rotates at a uniform speed in twenty-four hours!?”. How does the system of gravitation account for the seasonal variations in the lengths of days and nights if the earth rotates at a uniform speed in twenty-four hours!?”
Gabrielle Henriet did not understand that the axis of the Earth is tilted as it rotates around the Sun. Dubay chooses to conveniently forget about that or himself does not understand how it works.
The length of day and night are different because the Earth is tilted on its axis by 23.5 degrees. The lengths of day and night vary throughout the year because the earth rotates around the Sun.
At the equator of course, because the tilt of the Earth makes very little difference to how the Sun hits, so days and nights are almost exactly 12 hours and stays almost the same all year round.
When Eric Dubay and his fellow flat earthers do not understand something, instead of trying to understand the science they instead immediately use their ignorance as "evidence" for a flat Earth.
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Gabrielle Henriet did not understand that the axis of the Earth is tilted as it rotates around the Sun. Dubay chooses to conveniently forget about that or himself does not understand how it works.
The length of day and night are different because the Earth is tilted on its axis by 23.5 degrees. The lengths of day and night vary throughout the year because the earth rotates around the Sun.
At the equator of course, because the tilt of the Earth makes very little difference to how the Sun hits, so days and nights are almost exactly 12 hours and stays almost the same all year round.
When Eric Dubay and his fellow flat earthers do not understand something, instead of trying to understand the science they instead immediately use their ignorance as "evidence" for a flat Earth.
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