User contributions for Eric Kvaalen
A user with 10,109 edits. Account created on 24 October 2004.
22 July 2024
- 05:3705:37, 22 July 2024 diff hist +67 Solstice Improved caption
21 July 2024
- 16:2316:23, 21 July 2024 diff hist −30 Synodic day The effect of the length of the solar day on the length of daylight is only seconds so it doesn't affect the longest and shortest daylight days except near the equator. current
- 16:1416:14, 21 July 2024 diff hist +532 Solstice Added a graph of the length of the solar day. At the equator daylight lasts half a solar day.
- 11:2211:22, 21 July 2024 diff hist +329 Synodic day Added graph of derivative and length of solar day. Because of the variation in the length of the synodic day, the days with the longest and shortest period of daylight do not coincide exactly with the solstices. The true date depends on the latitude.
- 11:1411:14, 21 July 2024 diff hist +127 Equation of time Added graph of derivative and length of solar day. current
19 July 2024
- 22:1622:16, 19 July 2024 diff hist +152 Neolithic decline The decline did not start 6000 years ago. And the migrations began around 2850 BC according to the reference to that sentence. current
16 July 2024
- 15:0315:03, 16 July 2024 diff hist +708 Beitza It begins with a discussion of whether it is permitted to eat an egg laid around the time of a festival: "With regard to an egg that was laid on a Festival, Beit Shammai say: It may be eaten, and Beit Hillel say: It may not be eaten." current
9 July 2024
- 18:5518:55, 9 July 2024 diff hist +1,640 Eclipse cycle The Tetradia period has other functions as well. Added graphs showing variation in semester period and Hipparchic period. current
- 17:2117:21, 9 July 2024 diff hist +4 m Calls for the destruction of Israel Link to 2040 current
- 17:2017:20, 9 July 2024 diff hist +525 3rd millennium →2040s: Rare alignment of the five naked-eye planets cluster within 7° of longitude, September 12, 2040.
- 17:0117:01, 9 July 2024 diff hist +106 Calls for the destruction of Israel →Iran: Khamenei predicts Israel will be destroyed by 2040.
8 July 2024
- 11:4111:41, 8 July 2024 diff hist +25 N Multi-socket Redirect to Power strip current Tags: New redirect Uncategorized redirect
- 11:3911:39, 8 July 2024 diff hist +3 Power strip Added a couple synonyms to leed. current
6 July 2024
- 13:5913:59, 6 July 2024 diff hist +43 Sunder Katwala Born in Yorkshire of parents who came there from India and Ireland current
5 July 2024
- 19:2419:24, 5 July 2024 diff hist +30 Polylactic acid It's a type of polyhydroxyalkanoate.
- 19:2219:22, 5 July 2024 diff hist +284 Polyester Polyesters can contain one ester linkage per repeat unit of the polymer, as in polyhydroxyalkanoates like polylactic acid, or they may have two ester linkages per repeat unit, as in PET.
- 11:2711:27, 5 July 2024 diff hist +87 June 2024 United States presidential debate See also: 2024 United States presidential debates § June 27 presidential debate (Atlanta)
29 June 2024
- 15:2615:26, 29 June 2024 diff hist +1,894 Gamma (eclipse) Corrected a mistake and added more detail. current
24 June 2024
- 18:5918:59, 24 June 2024 diff hist +1 Hipparchic cycle →Eclipse cycles: In the Gregorian calendar it goes back by one day only (3/4)(235/400) of the occasions, which is less than half. current
19 June 2024
- 09:4609:46, 19 June 2024 diff hist +1,261 Hipparchic cycle Some minor corrections and improvements. Added graph showing that the length is quite constant, due to being near whole numbers of anomalistic months and years.
- 07:3907:39, 19 June 2024 diff hist +56 De verborum significatione Archive URL current
7 June 2024
- 18:5118:51, 7 June 2024 diff hist +49 Slow worm Put the etymology in a separate paragraph rather than just a footnote.
5 June 2024
- 09:1509:15, 5 June 2024 diff hist +139 Eclipse cycle Removed thousandths of a day from table, some of which were wrong. Trihex is 4 days over 195 Julian years, 2 days over 195 anomalistic years. Tritrix is more constant than trihex.
- 07:0907:09, 5 June 2024 diff hist +334 Irenaeus Added reference to Le Figaro
4 June 2024
- 20:1420:14, 4 June 2024 diff hist +713 Irenaeus Relics
- 19:5019:50, 4 June 2024 diff hist +19 m Lyon Wikilink to Lyon Cathedral
2 June 2024
- 09:2209:22, 2 June 2024 diff hist +458 Eclipse cycle Added graph of cosine of moon anomaly at eclipses.
- 08:2608:26, 2 June 2024 diff hist +119 User talk:Eric Kvaalen I prefer to write the traditional way. current
1 June 2024
- 07:2107:21, 1 June 2024 diff hist +140 Talk:Boaz Bismuth No one named Bismut?
- 07:1507:15, 1 June 2024 diff hist +511 User talk:Eric Kvaalen Definition of "proper name"
31 May 2024
- 18:0018:00, 31 May 2024 diff hist +98 m User talk:Eric Kvaalen Time stamp
- 17:5317:53, 31 May 2024 diff hist +249 User talk:Eric Kvaalen Conformism
- 16:4516:45, 31 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Eclipse cycle →Eclipse cycles: A few tiny corrections of anomalistic years
- 16:0216:02, 31 May 2024 diff hist +1,297 User talk:Eric Kvaalen What proper names are
30 May 2024
- 19:2319:23, 30 May 2024 diff hist +681 User talk:Eric Kvaalen →Sun, Moon, and the stars...
- 15:1715:17, 30 May 2024 diff hist −61 Eclipse cycle Modified some of the descriptions. Why should we capitalize "sun" and "moon"? Traditionally they're not capitalized.
29 May 2024
- 14:3014:30, 29 May 2024 diff hist +6 Eclipse cycle mod(6585.32*35,365.25)=13.5
- 10:1710:17, 29 May 2024 diff hist −12 Eclipse cycle Correction of date change in 631 years.
- 10:0410:04, 29 May 2024 diff hist +878 Eclipse cycle Changed Metonic and Calippic back to whole numbers of months, and added explanation in text. Added histogram of dates in 21st century.
26 May 2024
- 08:0108:01, 26 May 2024 diff hist +426 Talk:Boaz Bismuth I wonder why Joseph Bismuth spelled his name like that. There's no reason for the "h".
25 May 2024
- 18:3018:30, 25 May 2024 diff hist +170 Talk:Boaz Bismuth →Surname spelling
- 07:1707:17, 25 May 2024 diff hist +500 Boaz Bismuth Pronounced "Bismut". (Should it really be spelled "Bismuth", when the last letter is teth?) Corrected translation of tweet.
21 May 2024
- 16:2316:23, 21 May 2024 diff hist +2,333 Eclipse cycle Added some more details and a paragraph on saros series for which gamma changes slowly. Earth location.
20 May 2024
- 11:5311:53, 20 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Second wind "speed at which", not "speed of which"
18 May 2024
- 14:0814:08, 18 May 2024 diff hist −21 m Crucifixion of Jesus Put URL with title.
- 13:3313:33, 18 May 2024 diff hist −19 m Crucifixion of Jesus Better URL
- 12:5912:59, 18 May 2024 diff hist +598 Crucifixion of Jesus Shouldn't use "O.S." for dates before the Gregorian reform. More on theory of lunar eclipse. The earthquake around that time was at least 5.5 magnitude.
- 08:5308:53, 18 May 2024 diff hist −43 Crucifixion of Jesus There was definitely an earthquake in the region between AD 26 and 36. The other earthquakes in the wider region would not have been felt in Jerusalem, acc. to the authors.
- 08:0308:03, 18 May 2024 diff hist +8 m Crucifixion darkness Africanus says "Phlegon", but not "of Tralles".
- 07:5307:53, 18 May 2024 diff hist +49 Thallus (historian) May have cover'd period till the 207th Olympiad. Improved section on Josephus. current
