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Correct me if I'm wrong but if I understand correctly, both from an astronomy article and videoclips, you can see the phenomenon not only on the day of the equinox but also on the two or three days before and after. Spring equinox this year was on 20 March 2018 at 16:15 UT. I'm not sure at what time of the day you can see the event in San Juan de Ortega, I think it's late in the afternoon?
PS: I know that it says 21 March in the article but they are a bit out of date ....
The sarcophagus in the centre of the nave had all these amazing little montages and that was one of them. I wish I knew for sure, but I think they're scenes from the life of San Juan. Here's another that I particularly like because the oxcart is exactly the same as the ones I see out my window every morning.Who are those guys in the boat on the stormy seas?
Juan de Ortega went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and on the return journey, their ship got into a storm and threatened to sink. I suppose San Juan is the one on the right, praying for help (to San Nicolas de Bari who was the competent saint for such matters).Oh, VN, those are beautiful pictures. Who are those guys in the boat on the stormy seas?
Could it be the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars?There is something odd about this but I can't get my head around it. Why is this display of light on the sculpture of the Annunciation not centered around the feast day of the Annunciation, namely on 25 March?
Happened to me too during my first, last and only visit to SdC cathedral in 2011.This piqued my curiosity, and I found myself wondering if engineering these sorts of effects could have been more common than we think. I can easily imagine that an imitative competition could have been going on, at all levels - from parish churches to great cathedrals.
It doesn't work out, at least not the way I think it shouldCould it be the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars?
I'm still intrigued by this. It just makes no sense to me that it's on the days around the vernal equinox (around 20 March) and not on the days around Annunciation (25 March). So if anyone can shed light on this, please pretty please .....! I understand - and it's also obvious when you go inside - that the front part of the church San Juan de Ortega was added/remodelled a few hundred years after the initial completion because a visiting queen thought that the church was quite "a poor affair" and ordered and financed works to be done. So the window through which the light falls on the sculpture is actually from a later date but one could assume that there was a window with a similar function in the initial façade.Could it be ...
Ha, you are a genius, @VNwalking. Your comment gave me the idea to google with different search parameters, and I discovered that the author has published about this topic in English and it's available on Researchgate.The paper you cite is by the same person who wrote the one I had seen.
Ditto. That's the first thing that gets me about this actually, the 'Wow, how's they do that?' aspect.I'm also awed by something else: the increase in technological and scientific knowledge that made it all possible in the first place. Something that's - regrettably - often overlooked in the general narrative.
Don't people stay long enough?
Is that trait of yours pragmatism? Whatever it is, it means your posts could sometimes belong also in another thread, not so serious!Ditto. That's the first thing that gets me about this actually, the 'Wow, how's they do that?' aspect.
The buses have their engines running in the car park. By 19.10 they're gone.
Oh, good, I'm glad to hear it.Is that trait of yours pragmatism? Whatever it is, it means your posts could sometimes belong also in another thread, not so serious!
I don't think that's quite how it was worked out. I'm currently debating with myself whether I can justify the purchase of this book: Scandalous Error: Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe. The author is a specialist scholar for these topics. You can "Look inside" on Amazon.Which is why I'm totally in awe of someone who would have to track light over a long time to see where it falls and how it moves, and to figure out where it would track on an as-yet-unbuilt wall.
It is. I looked at your link and there was this other book mentioned. (one of those 'people also bought this' links). It also looks interesting. But you're right: a 'little' expensive? Wow, you can fly form London to Santiago for that.Truly fascinating.
In Buddhism too. This month everyone celebrates Vesak, which is a 'triple:' the Buddha's birth, death, and enlightenment days - a full moon day, then the same one 35 and again 80 years later.start of life and end of life on the same day was generally of significance in medieval and earlier narrative
You aren't missing anything, except many of us being silly.I don't really follow that other thread.
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