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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Lazy Photo Post
Even though my art skills...are not, I'm rather pleased with this St. Philomena design I've been working on for ages.
after careful review of this art I make the following observations, this appears to be a compass designed with maritime attributes and estimating the compass is displaying a magnetic declination of negative 28°west it seems reasonable to conclude that said reading was taken on the north western side of Greenland, but then I read that it is regarding st. Philomena who if I remember correctly (with a refresher from Wikipedia) was centered around Rome, and that makes me ask should it not be displaying a positive magnetic declination of 2° east? but it is not as simple as that, because magnetic north is constantly rotating around the north pole the declination will change slightly over time but only a few degrees from Romes perspective. I don't say this to take away anything from your art but instead because I believe no good blog post should go commented :)
after careful review of this art I make the following observations, this appears to be a compass designed with maritime attributes and estimating the compass is displaying a magnetic declination of negative 28°west it seems reasonable to conclude that said reading was taken on the north western side of Greenland, but then I read that it is regarding st. Philomena who if I remember correctly (with a refresher from Wikipedia) was centered around Rome, and that makes me ask should it not be displaying a positive magnetic declination of 2° east? but it is not as simple as that, because magnetic north is constantly rotating around the north pole the declination will change slightly over time but only a few degrees from Romes perspective. I don't say this to take away anything from your art but instead because I believe no good blog post should go commented :)
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