Comments on: Night Takes Rook

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 02:12:39 +0000

Cat:

Thanks for checking. I am glad to say that I am doing well.

I retired in July, and life is great.

By: Thom Squire

Thom Squire — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:58:20 +0000

Allen Bellows why did you not add this other interesting piece of history just by coincidence another man by the name of Henry, Henry Hall, the second lighthouse guy died not by the fire that destroyed it but the molten lead from the roof that got into his gut and that’s what killed him? Correct me with specifics but that should be in this article. The lead blob was taken out of his 94 year old stomach and placed in a museum

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Cat — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 10:18:23 +0000

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By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:17:04 +0000

Mr. Macfarlane:

Superb work! I had not heard of this lighthouse or Winstanley before, and I thoroughly reading about things hithertofore unknown to me.

I also want to mention that your being a Shakespearean scholar is highly impressive. I have long been a Bardolator, and I will now begin looking for some of your work about Shakespeare.

By: E&J

E&J — Sun, 06 May 2018 16:41:47 +0000

Point of (natural) order. In my part of the world (and I could be wrong but I think tides are pretty much the same all over the globe)there are basically 2 low tides a day. Not 4, as the article states.

Confusion may come from the fact that you can say their are 4 “tides” a day; two flooding and two ebbing. This results in 2 high tides and 2 low tides per day, which can be thought of as “slack water”. So the result of this is that Henry’s foundation would only be covered by high tide twice a day, not four. This would mean his schedule would not be quite as frantic as set forth. (But still plenty frantic, if you ask me.)

In finer detail, the tides are, of course, influenced by the orbit of the moon. There are exactly 2 high tides and two low tides per lunar day (close to, but not exactly the same as a 24 day on earth). Which is explained here: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/tides/tides05_lunarday.html

The reason I say “basically” 4 tides a day is because sometimes there are only 3 periods of slack water in a day, as the 4th occurs just before or just after midnight. This is due to the lunar day discrepancy referenced above.

By: jtpost

jtpost — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:41:57 +0000

Good article, and its mention that Winstanley was an amateur who was inspired by his fascination with mechanical objects and problem-solving reminds me of another 18th-century genius. John Harrison was a carpenter and self-taught clockmaker who developed the marine chronometer, a timepiece that made accurate measurement of longitude possible. There’s a parallel here because an urgent need to devise some way to prevent shipwrecks led to the Admiralty prize offered for this invention.

By: Renee Niemann

Renee Niemann — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 04:06:34 +0000

It would be neat if someone would build a tribute to Winstanley’s new and improved tower and his genious as they did Smeaton’s, afterall his did save countless lives until the “Mother Storm” hit, and he seemed to be the pioneer of carrying out the idea and the bravest of them all! Just a thought. Thank you for the article!