Dear Kevin (and other members of the Sundial List),
I am leading a Harvard Museums of Science and Culture tour to England at the
end of September 2013 on the theme of Time, in conjunction with an exhibition I
am curating at Harvard called Time and Time Again: How Science and Culture
Shape the
Hi Kevin,
the name is just right, I think to know what it was connected to:
http://youtu.be/cwofR3J0Gh4
ciao Fabio
Fabio Savian
fabio.sav...@nonvedolora.it
Paderno Dugnano, Milano, Italy
45° 34' 10'' N, 9° 10' 9'' E, GMT+1 (DST +2)
From: Kevin Karney
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:50 PM
Excellent idea! I'll suggest that we head to Durham! Thanks!
From: Frank Evans [mailto:frankev...@zooplankton.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:26 AM
To: Schechner, Sara
Subject: Re: Sundials worthy of a tour in England
Dear Sara,
You are following the usual visitor route in England,
Dear SaraNice to hear from you!First idea...Bath - the Grand Pump Room built 1705 - an elegant tea room - with a fabulous Tompion Long Case Clock, complete with EoT cam, and on a ledge outside the nearest window the Tompion sundial with which to set the clock. The Curator has a packaged talk about
Dear Sara,
By chance, if you are in Durham for September 2013 you will be able to
see the Lindisfarne Gospels, a famous gospel book which will be in the
Cathedral on loan from the British Library in London for the month of
September. Lending this book has been called the world's number one
Peter
You start the engine, listen to it phutting away, read the engine plate to make
sure you are in the right frame of mind, sit beside it in the sun - dreaming.
Then, by magic, just like any sundial, you notice the shadow of engine is
really quite short. So it's noon and you go to lunch.
K
Sara
If you are going to go as far north as Durham, then you might as well go a wee
bit further and come to Scotland where we have many sundials unique to Scotland
!
regards
Dennis
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Schechner, Sara sche...@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Excellent idea! I’ll
That is incredible Fabio. How did you figure this out?
-Bill
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Fabio nonvedolora
fabio.sav...@nonvedolora.it wrote:
Hi Kevin,
the name is just right, I think to know what it was connected to:
http://youtu.be/cwofR3J0Gh4
ciao Fabio
Fabio Savian
I'm happy to say that the dates and hotel for the NASS conference have
now been set!
We will be meeting Aug. 22-25, 2013 in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts
at the Courtyard by Marriott. Full details are not yet available,
since I am still finalizing the contract with the hotel (so please
don't
Hi Bill
the movie shows a property of some bifilar sundials: they may revolve.
The bifilar sundial of the movie has the dial in the meridian plane and it has
a negative thread, that is a thread is in front of the dial, the other is
behind.
The two threads have the same distance from the dial,
A man somehow has managed to climb 30 feet up a shear vertical stone
pinnacle to see this Monumental Railway Sundial!
See:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jlcarmichael/8410528376/sizes/l/in/set-72157632
430552837/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jlcarmichael/8410528452/sizes/l/in/set-72157632
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