Ronald & Tony

The secret of Sevilla

Back to start

Workshop early evening. Safe steady oil lamp left on clear table, simple wooden globe on stand central, closed notebook lies far from lamp. Ronald elderly mature nose lined face explains to Inés, Karen and Harly. Globe has only simplified rough land shapes, no modern accurate atlas or political borders. : Ronald: Earth turns. That is why we have day and night.

Harly and mariner look down at OPEN notebook lying flat frontUP on table, overhead from behind them. Same Wednesday/Thursday entries and sun doodle. No one holds paper outwards. : Harly: They did not forget a day. They counted fewer sunrises.

Read the transcript

Workshop early evening. Safe steady oil lamp left on clear table, simple wooden globe on stand central, closed notebook lies far from lamp. Ronald elderly mature nose lined face explains to Inés, Karen and Harly. Globe has only simplified rough land shapes, no modern accurate atlas or political borders.
Ronald: Earth turns. That is why we have day and night.

Close simple teaching model: wooden globe lit from left by stationary lamp, left hemisphere bright ochre right hemisphere dark teal. Karen in profile at right observing model, her hands empty. NOT a space photograph. No arrows labels needed.
Karen: The ship sailed west, following the Sun.

Inés and Ronald in profile by globe model, both hands resting simply on table, no spinning complicated arms.
Inés: So their days were a little longer? Ronald: Yes. Over a full circuit, those differences added up to a day.

Harly and mariner look down at OPEN notebook lying flat frontUP on table, overhead from behind them. Same Wednesday/Thursday entries and sun doodle. No one holds paper outwards.
Harly: They did not forget a day. They counted fewer sunrises.