Re: TRUTH AND "TRUTH"

["Matthew Troutman" <m_troutman@hotmail.com>]

<<No, we don't. The official 88 *constellation* boundaries were established 
by the International Astronomical Union in the 1920s. Due to precession, the 
so-called twelve astrological zodiacal "signs," while congruent with their 
constellation counterparts 2000 years ago, have shifted many degrees away 
from the positions that Claudius Ptolemy delineated in the first century of 
the present era. Consequently, astrological charts are useless guides to the 
current sky.>>

I meant, as a parallel to the use of Linnean names in cladistic trees, that 
the names of the "zodiac" are still used today in constellations.  I should 
have made this a bit more clear.  Sorry.

Matt Troutman
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