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The historical documents info are not tests of the hypothesis occuring in the present. Just received data. You have not tested the past event or tested anything to indicate the past event. You have simply been assured by witnesses something happened. In fact maybe they were wrong. In fact one might say the historical info wasn't a test of the past but a present observation at the time.
The second "test" is not such because the prediction is not proven at this momment but only takes effect when the future event occurs. Again it is not a test of the future but a observation of the present that is true only when the event takes place
Robert,
I think you must live on another planet, there is plenty of evidence that complex mathematical formulae are used to predict eclipses. Working the maths for past ecliptic events have proved to be accurate tests of the formulae backed up with historical data.
5 years ago I was in France for the eclipse of August 99. Now if the maths had been wrong, I would have been in the wrong place, but I was not. I was right in the middle of the totality zone and had the time of my life..
I think you are trying to stretch the argument far too hard and make yourself into someone who will never be taken seriously!
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