The Meaning of Crossing the Red Sea

Solomon
El Boyero
The Three Sisters

Prov.1:1
"The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;"

The Three Sisters, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry
Three Sisters, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland

Chess: "Crossing the Red Sea" "Solomon" "IsRaEl" "El Boyero" "Three Sisters"
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;1parabolae Salomonis filii David regis Israhel
1Proverbes de Salomon, fils de David, roi d'Israël,
1 Sprüche Salomos, des Sohnes Davids, des Königs von Israel,
1 Los proverbios de Salomón^[a]* hijo de David, rey de Israel,
Proverbi di Salomone, figlio di Davide, re d'Israele,
1Provérbios de Salomão, filho de Davi, rei de Israel:
1Притчи Соломона, сына Давидова, царя Израильского,
* 1Kings4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
29И дал Бог Соломону мудрость(wisdom) и весьма (greatly) великий (grandeur) разум, и обширный ум, как песок на берегу моря.
29Dieu donna à Salomon de la sagesse, une très grande intelligence, et des connaissances multipliées comme le sable qui est au bord de la mer.
29 Dios dio a Salomón sabiduría y prudencia^[a] muy grandes, y tan dilatado corazón como la arena que está a la orilla del mar.
Reyes 4:29 En la tradición israelita, Salomón llegó a ser el prototipo del sabio (véase 1 R 3.12 nota m.) De ahí que con el paso del tiempo se le hayan atribuido todos los escritos sapienciales (así como toda la Ley se le atribuyó a Moisés y los salmos a David). Cf. Pr 1.1; 25.1; Cnt 1.1; Ec 1.1-2.

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About 260 BC

Aristarchus of Samos proposed a heliocentric Universe.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Aristarchus.html


Aristarchus was certainly both a mathematician and astronomer and he is most celebrated as the first to propose a sun-centred universe. Aristarchus
figured out how to measure the distances to and sizes of the Sun and the Moon. Because he deduced that the Sun was so much bigger than the moon, he concluded that the Earth must therefore revolve around the Sun.
He figured out how to measure the relative distances from the Earth (E) of the Sun (S) and the Moon (M). When the Moon is exactly half full, the angle E-M-S must be exactly 90 degrees. Therefore, a measurement of the angle M-E-S when the Moon is half full will give the ratio of the Earth-Moon distance to the Earth-Sun distanceAristarchus measured the angle M-E-S to be 87 degrees, giving the ratio to be 1/19. Actually, the angle is 89 degrees, 51 minutes, giving an actual value of 1/400, that is, the Sun is 400 times further away from the Earth than the Moon is. Aristarchus' measurement was probably off because first, it is hard to determine the exact centers of the Sun and the Moon and second, it is hard to know exactly when the Moon is half full. On the other hand, his estimate showed that the Sun is much further away from us than the Moon is. Aristarchus also figured out how to measure the size of the Moon. During a lunar eclipse, he measured the duration of time between the moment when the edge of the Moon first entered the umbra and the moment when the Moon was first totally obscured. He also measured the duration of totality. Because he found the two times to be the same, he concluded that the width of the Earth's shadow at the distance where the Moon crosses it must be twice the diameter of the Moon Therefore, the Moon must be about half as big as the Earth. Note that he already knew the approximate size of the Earth. Actually, the Moon is about 1/4 as big as the Earth. Aristarchus also reasoned that since the Sun and the Moon have the same angular size, but the Sun is 19 times further (or so he thought), then the Sun must be 19 times bigger than the Moon. While his measurements were not very precise, they nonetheless demonstrate a simple understanding of the sizes and distances
of the Earth, Moon and Sun.
He is also famed for his pioneering attempt to determine the sizes and distances of the sun and moon…. Aristarchus was a student of Strato of Lampsacus, who was head of Aristotle's Lyceum. However, it is not thought that Aristarchus studied with Strato in Athens but rather that he studied with him in Alexandria. Strato became head of the Lyceum at Alexandria in 287 BC and it is thought that Aristarchus studied with him there starting his studies shortly after that date. … Of course there is the immediate question of what Aristarchus invented, and Vitruvius explains that he invented a sundial in the shape of a hemispherical bowl with a pointer to cast shadows placed in the middle of the bowl…. (transitory : Super Bowl XL Steelers vrs. Seattle Seahawks)
Chess: "K" "Aristarchus:ángulo" "up" :setting up the chessmen : "The acquaintances she had already formed were unworthy of her" [("Canis Major") Jane Austen] "upholster"

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2: To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
2ad sciendam sapientiam et disciplinam
2 Pour connaître la sagesse et l'instruction, Pour comprendre les paroles de l'intelligence;
2 um zu erkennen Weisheit und Zucht, um zu verstehen verständige Worte,2 para aprender sabiduría y doctrina,^[b] para conocer razones prudentes,
2per conoscere sapienza e ammaestramento per intendere i detti(sayings:dichos) di senno;2Para se conhecer a sabedoria e a instrução; para se entenderem as palavras de inteligência;
2чтобы познать мудрость и наставление, понять изречения разума; Prov.1

Chess: Chess: "L" "Cocos Island" "AB" Jas.1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Arabic The vocative case is indicated in Arabic by the particle ya (Arabic: يا‎) placed before a noun. In English translations, this is often translated literally as O instead of being omitted.

"sage" : "Camp-fires and hot suppers in the deserts would be impossible but for the friendly sage-brush" Mark Twain. Roughing It. Ch.3 p.15 see the wole paragraph: "It is an imposing monarch of the forest in exquisite miniature, is the "sage-brush." Its foliage is a grayish green, and gives that tint to desert and mountain. It smells like our domestic sage, and "sage-tea" made from it taste like the sage-tea which all boys are so well acquainted with. The sage-brush is a singularly hardy plant, and grows right in the midst of deep sand, and among barren rocks, where nothing else in the vegetable world would try to grow, except "bunch-grass." The sage-bushes grow from three to six or seven feet apart, all over the mountains and deserts of the Far West, clear to the borders of California. There is not a tree of any kind in the deserts, for hundreds of miles--there is no vegetation at all in a regular desert, except the sage-brush and its cousin the "greasewood," which is so much like the sage-brush that the difference amounts to little. Camp-fires and hot suppers in the deserts would be impossible but for the friendly sage-brush. Its trunk is as large as a boy's wrist (and from that up to a man's arm), and its crooked branches are half as large as its trunk--all good, sound, hard wood, very like oak."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essay 1.

HISTORY
There is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all things are;
And it cometh everywhere.
I am owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain.
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has be–fallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.
Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days. Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, which belongs to it in appropriate events. But the thought is always prior to the fact; all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant, and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time. A man is the whole encyclopaedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Epoch after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world.
This human mind wrote history, and this must read it. The Sphinx must solve her own riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages, and the ages explained by the hours. Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation. All its properties consist in him. Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible. We as we read must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner, must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly. What befell Asdrubal or Caesar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us. Each new law and political movement has meaning for you. Stand before each of its tablets and say, 'Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself.' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves. This throws our actions into perspective: and as crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance, and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac, so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.
It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things. Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable, and we hedge it round with penalties and laws. All laws derive hence their ultimate reason; all express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme, illimitable essence. Property also holds of the soul, covers great spiritual facts, and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws, and wide and complex combinations. The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day, the claim of claims; the plea for education, for justice, for charity, the foundation of friendship and love, and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self–reliance. It is remarkable that involuntarily we always read as superior beings. Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures — in the sacerdotal, the imperial palaces, in the triumphs of will or of genius — anywhere lose our ear, anywhere make us feel that we intrude, that this is for better men; but rather is it true, that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home. All that Shakspeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself. We sympathize in the great moments of history, in the great discoveries, the great resistances, the great prosperities of men; — because there law was enacted, the sea was searched, the land was found, or the blow was struck for us, as we ourselves in that place would have done or applauded.
We have the same interest in condition and character. We honor the rich, because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us. So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic, or oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self. All literature writes the character of the wise man. Books, monuments, pictures, conversation, are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him, and he is stimulated wherever he moves as by personal allusions. A true aspirant, therefore, never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse. He hears the commendation, not of himself, but more sweet, of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character, yea, further, in every fact and circumstance, — in the running river and the rustling corn. Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows from mute nature, from the mountains and the lights of the firmament.
These hints, dropped as it were from sleep and night, let us use in broad day. The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary.
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. Walt Whitman. Prov.1

Chess: "L" "AB" Jas.1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Arabic The vocative case is indicated in Arabic by the particle ya (Arabic: يا‎) placed before a noun. In English translations, this is often translated literally as O instead of being omitted.

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Hiram Corson: Introduction to the Poetry of Browning:

The Rev. James Byrne, of Trinity College, Dublin, in his lecture on

`The Influence of National Character on English Literature',

remarks of Spenser:  "After that dark period which separated him

from Chaucer, after all the desolation of the Wars of the Roses,

and all the deep trials of the Reformation, he rose on England as if,

to use an image of his own,

     "`At last the golden orientall gate

     Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre,

     And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate,

     Came dauncing forth, shaking his deawie hayre,

     And hurled his glistering beams through gloomy ayre.'

That baptism of blood and fire through which England passedat the Reformation, raised both Protestant and Catholic to a newness

of life.  That mighty working of heart and mind with which the nation

then heaved throughout, went through every man and woman,

and tried what manner of spirits they were of.  What a preparation

was this for that period of our literature in which man,

the great actor of the drama of life, was about to appear on the stage!

It was to be expected that the drama should then start into life,

and that human character should speak from the stage

with a depth of life never known before; but who could have

imagined Shakespeare?"

And what a new music burst upon the world in Spenser's verse!

His noble stanza, so admirably adapted to pictorial effect,

has since been used by some of the greatest poets of the literature,

Thomson, Scott, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Shelley, and numerous others;

but none of them, except in rare instances, have drawn the music

out of it which Spenser drew.

Academus

A hero from Attica. A sacred area (northwest of Athens) dedicated to him was called the Academy. Plato founded his school there, and his students were called academics.
Etymology "Of a silent district"

The Sun gives off light and heat because it is essentially a giant nuclear reactor that is fusing (burning) hydrogen into helium inside. When hydrogen combines to form helium, it gives off energy. Fusion is a very efficient way of converting mass to energy (light and heat); only a very, very, very tiny amount of the Sun is used up. 3: To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 3 ad intellegenda verba prudentiae et suscipiendam eruditionem doctrinae iustitiam et iudicium et aequitatem
3 Pour recevoir des leçons de bon sens, De justice, d'équité et de droiture; 3 um anzunehmen Zucht [mit] Einsicht, [dazu] Gerechtigkeit, Recht und Aufrichtigkeit, 3 para adquirir instrucción y prudencia, justicia, juicio y equidad;^[c] 3 per ricevere ammaestramento circa l'agire saggiamente, la giustizia, il giudizio e la diritturalâqach H
Heb 3947
The Sun consumes about 600 million tons of hydrogen per second. (That's 6 x 10⁸ tons.) For comparison, the mass of the Earth is about 1.35 x 10²¹ tons. This would mean the Sun consumes the mass of the Earth in about 70,000 years.

Dr. Louis Barbier
The temperature of the Sun's core is about 15 million degrees Kelvin or about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.
Yes, it does take light thousands of years to get out of the Sun. The important thing to realize is that the Sun (especially at the center) is quite opaque, that is, light travels through it only slightly better than light travels through a rock. What happens is that light only travels a short distance before it is absorbed. It is then re-emitted, but in a random direction. It eventually random "walks" it's way out of the Sun, but that takes a long time.

Chess: "M" "Ram"
4: To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
4 ut detur parvulis astutia adulescenti scientia et intellectus

4 para dar sagacidad a los ingenuos, y a los jóvenes inteligencia y cordura.
4 um Einfältigen Klugheit zu geben, dem jungen Mann Erkenntnis und Besonnenheit.
4 per dare accorgimento ai semplici, conoscenza e riflessione al giovane.

Our Sun is about halfway through the "main sequence" part of its life. During this part, the Sun "burns" hydrogen into helium (fusion), which is what generates the heat and light. The Sun has been doing this for about 5 billion years, so in 13,000 years (15,000 A.D.) there will be no real difference from the energy left now. In about 5 billion more years, the useable hydrogen (not all the hydrogen) will have been converted to helium, and the Sun will start burning helium, and become a red giant. After that the Sun will recollapse down to a white dwarf and last for billions of years more.
Chess : "N" "pan"

5: A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
5 audiens sapiens sapientior erit et intellegens gubernacula possidebit

5 Il savio ascolterà e accrescerà il suo sapere; l'uomo con intendimento ne otterrà saggi consigli,
Why the corona is so hot, when the region below it is several orders of magnitude cooler, is one of the open questions in solar physics. Magnetic fields and turbulence in the plasma are certainly involved, but the exact mechanism is not understood. One suggestion is that large numbers of "microflares" are the cause. NASA is developing a mission that should study this problem (and others) called Solar Probe.

Dr. Eric Christian
Chess: "O" "Oir" "OakRidge" "Chicago"(Oak Park)
"O" :Round as Giotto's "O".Said of work that is perfect and complete, but done with little effort.
Oak: I sit beneath your leaves, old oak,
You mighty one of all trees;
Within whose hollow trunk a man
Could stable his big horse with ease. W.H. Davies: The Old Oak Tree.

The Oaks : The "Ladies'Race", one of the classic races of the turf; it is for three-year-old fillies, and is run at Epsom two days alter the Derby. Instituted in 1779 and so called from an estate of the Earl of Derby near Epsom named "The Oaks"
"Occam's Razor & La Oreja de Van Gogh" ?
6: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. 6 animadvertet parabolam et interpretationem verba sapientium et enigmata eorum (de ellos)
6 per comprendere una sentenza e un enigma, le parole dei savi e i loro detti oscuri Prov.1
Chess: "P" "park" "Spots" "Jaguars"

How Much Power Does the Sun Produce? About how much power does the Sun produce? The Sun's output is 3.8 x 10³³ ergs/second, or about 5 x 10²³ horsepower. How much is that? It is enough energy to melt a bridge of ice 2 miles wide, 1 mile thick, and extending the entire way from the Earth to the Sun, in one second.
Dr. Louis Barbier