A Matter of Degrees, Pt. 2

[Sherwood, Harrison]

It occurs to me I didn't get it all down in my earlier post:

There's also the matter of the fact that the phrase "God's Disposition
of Time and Space" implies that the two measurements--degrees of arc in
a circle and days of terrestrial orbit--*ought to be the same* in a
Newtonian sort of way; and it's irksome to our poor Jesuit friend that
space and time are _not_ symmetrically related. Measurements of time
should, in a clockwork universe, be reflections of measurements of
distance. Yet, since they are not, Fr. Maire arguably breaks the Second
Commandment by implying that the 360-degree circle is "honest" and the
365.25-degree one is a heathen perversion.

Next stop: Einstein. 

Harrison "But now, time for some heathen perversion!" Sherwood