Re: Private Universe and the Seasons

[Larry Smith <larry.smith@SNOW.EDU>]

At 10:14 AM -0700 9/19/03, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> <http://hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/the_book/Chap2/Chapter2.html#oots>
> where the first figure encountered shows us that the sun emits all parallel
> rays out the 2 sides of the sun.
>
> they have deniability, as they emphasized the fig. is NOT to scale.
>
> Still very misleading, of course.

I agree bc and find this whole thread interesting, but it begs the question
"What _should_ the diagrams look like?"  We can't relly make them to scale
and do any better.  Can someone Adobe Illustrator some _ideal_ diagrams for
teaching the seasons and send them all to us as .pdf's?  Or are ideal
diagrams impossible?  What should we settle on?  I don't like the thought
of avoiding diagrams entirely.

Larry