Hello Keith,
perhaps you may find some news here
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Dies.html
Best wishes
Gianni
2008/8/22 Keith E. Brandt, WD9GET [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frank King scripsit:
Equal hours were not, though, used for governing
ordinary life. As
Google quickly finds pictures and information on the Braunschweig Cathedral
sundial.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Braunschweig,_Dom_St._Blasii_mit_Sonnenuhr.jpg
The pictures show a dial with the words Anno 1716 across the top.
A text reference identifies Hans Geog Hartel with the
Yuo can find a better picture on
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Bild:Braunschweiger_Dom_kleine_Sonnnenuhr.JPG
Willy LEENDERS
Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)
www.wijzerweb.be
Op 23-aug-08, om 19:35 heeft Roger Bailey het volgende geschreven:
Google quickly finds pictures and information on
Dear Roger,
Yes, it is easy to get the wrong sundial when
looking at Braunschweig Cathedral!!
The bigger (17th century?) dial has recently been
restored and I have in front of me a newspaper
cutting which explains:
Die Kosten von rund 700,000 Euro werden von
der Dombaustiftung und von
Dear all,
The DGC catalog mentions 4 sundials on the Braunschweig cathedral. The
discussion does not refer to the 'new' ones from 1518 and 1715, but to
two older ones, from about 1334 and about 1346. The hour line patterns
(attached) show two ways of playing around with the lines, in the
4. BYZANTINE HOURS
NOTE : Rhor in his book Sundial, Italian edition, in pag. 110 says that in
the monasteries of Mount Athos still use the julian calendar and the temporary
hours ???
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Mr Karlheinz Schaldach during his travels in Greece has been on
Dear Willi and Roger, that sundial is not the one that Severino means.
It is older.
Mario
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Mario Arnaldi
Via Cavour, 57/c
48100 Ravenna
Italy
Lat. 44° 25' N - Lon. 12° 12' E
Redazione di GNOMONICA ITALIANA rivista di storia,
Yes, Mario, I have been there twice: the monks use two time systems. For their
daily work they have the normal Greek time, but for their services they do as
if they use the temporal hours: the night services are longer in winter time
than in summer time. Karlheinz
4. BYZANTINE HOURS
NOTE :
Frank King scripsit:
Equal hours were not, though, used for governing
ordinary life.
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This is not quite right. Equal hours were not used from common people in their
ordinary life, but used for civil porpouses.
Censorinus and Gellius citing Varro say that in Rome the day
Schaldach wrote:
Dear Frank,
we should recognized that sundials were found from Hellenistic and Roman
times with polar-oriented gnomons.
Yes, I can confirm this. I found a complete horizontal sundial (unknowed to
Gibbs catalogue) from Pompei, on 2005. This have temporary hours and an
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