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On 2025-04-25 20:04, Java Jive wrote:
> On 2025-04-23 17:45, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
>>
>> So The Pope's minions will have to find a new formula for Easter, RSN.
> 
> I think not RSN!
> 
> The timing of Easter has been a contentious issue throughout the history 
> of the Christian Faith, and, perhaps rather ironically to modern minds, 
> unintentionally gave rise to modern science in the Enlightenment.  Prof 
> Simon Schaffer, in the first episode "Let There Be Light" of the BBC 
> Series "Light Fantastic", beginning 29:47 mins in, enters the Basilica 
> Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome, where he demonstrates 
> how a hole in the wall of the church allows light to fall on a brass 
> strip in the floor, that was used to determine the timing of the 
> seasons, and thus allow the correct calculation of Easter.
> 
> AFAICR, the series was shown nearly 20 years ago so is unlikely ever to 
> be available even to UK citizens via iPlayer unless the BBC "in their 
> infinite wisdom" decide to repeat it.  However, that actual clip is 
> available to all, though sadly in atrocious quality, in YouTube:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVTdfVWp5Rk

Indeed, the quality is atrocious. The sound is fine, though.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.