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To: longnshort who wrote (28079)	7/7/2012 2:04:50 PM
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Math is, but there is music in the spheres Little poem i picked up when living & working trail crew up in Yosemite when young (very hard work, still have the lungs & legs to prove ) , became friends with Ansel Adams & his wife then picking it up from him , you might like i always did keep it as a personal prayer of the mind , one of those things i felt i had written myself , maybe you've had that similar experience ? So Man is not what he appears. I had been blind a thousand years Wisdom older than the seers, Beauty much too deep for tears, And holy silence bursts the ears. Ssh. The music of the spheres. The night sky from Glacier Point

To: longnshort who wrote (28079)	7/7/2012 2:48:08 PM
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Unerstanding the orbits of the planets perhaps was helped with the huge break thru that came from the study of the elipse , a very special circle . There was Hypatia the famous woman professor of math & astronomy that did work with the geometry of conic sections in Alexandria, Egypt around 370bc & the algebra that led to this discovery. She is sometimes refered to as the Mother of Algebra : ricw.ri.gov We know of her work for she edited the works On the Conics of Apollonius making it easier to understand allowing the work to survive in time as her life was ended by a mob of Christian fanatics who murdered her tearing her flesh off with shards of pottery then dragged thru the city . That pretty much ended the age of reason of science & mathematics for the next few centuries as the religious fundamentalists took over & the world descended into dark ages . ( The good Bishop had most all of her work & the great library destroyed, such was the belief that God would provide )