Re: Circular Spreadsheet Software PS

2017-01-20 Thread John Pickard
Hi Simon, You are not the only one who loathes this “helpful” feature. I almost threw my Samsung Android phone against a wall and jumped on it in sheer frustration at the moronic “I’m here to help you” auto spelling correction. I was spending as much time correcting their so-called correction

Re: Circular Spreadsheet Software PS

2017-01-20 Thread illustratingshad...@gmail.com
I have given up on my Android spell check, sorry for typos. I am beginning to long for the days of the Creed 7B teleprinters, at least they didn't "correct" spelling. Simon  Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 16:20, Steve Lelievre

Re: Circular Spreadsheet Software

2017-01-20 Thread illustratingshad...@gmail.com
I would need more info. Freecad, Nanocad, Power draw are good 2fd cad ststems, programmable, and free. Power draw has no trig functions but I wrote some for it, see my website.  Illustrating Shadows | | | | || | | | | | Illustrating Shadows Material for sun dials,

Re: Circular Spreadsheet Software

2017-01-20 Thread Steve Lelievre
Graham, I'm not sure that I understand your question fully, but if you're trying to do something like the attached and you're using Windows, try Inkscape. https://inkscape.org/ I'm fairly new to it and am finding it a little awkward to use in some respects, but I'm gradually getting used to

Re: Unusual bi-annual sundial

2017-01-20 Thread Roger Bailey
Hello Frank, Thanks for reminding us of Omar Khayyam's calendar based on a 33 year cycle. John Dee's implementation of this calendar would reduce the equinox variation to 24 hours. At one longitude, 77° W, the equinox would always be on the same day. Is this God's Longitude? Based on your

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2017-01-20 Thread graham stapleton via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Is there any freeware (or at least inexpensive

Re: Unusual bi-annual sundial

2017-01-20 Thread John Goodman
On Jan 20, 2017, at 7:40 AM, Frank King wrote: > If I had been consulted, I would have suggested that the Great Seal should be > a little smaller so that it will always be wholly illuminated at the crucial > instant! That would have been a clever and elegant solution!

Re: Unusual bi-annual sundial

2017-01-20 Thread Frank King
Dear John, I am not sure the Chief Engineer fully grasped what is going on though he has indeed appreciated that, at the required moment, both the altitude and the azimuth of the sun change from one year to the the next. In a crucial sentence he asserts: Each year, the center of the sun is

Orologi Solari n. 12

2017-01-20 Thread Gian Casalegno
Dear friends, a new issue of the Italian magazine Orologi Solari is available for download from the usual site http://www.orologisolari.eu/. Here is the list of articles together with a short abstract: 1. "Metamorphosis of a reflection sundial" by Riccardo Anselmi The article explains how to