Re: Art in dialling

Hi Mario and all, This year, my sundials of the month are dedicated to the Art: http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/cadrans-du-mois.html And be patient for the next month ... or help me to continue You can fond also other artists in previous months: Kate Pond

Re: An interesting sundial that shows solstices

Dear Bob and all, I presented this French sundial in March 2005 as my preferred one: http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/cadran-mines.html http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/cadran-mines-2.html I put some photos to show that you can read solstice or equinox at noon some days before or after the real

Re: Book of Time Sundial....

Hello Roderick, The sundial maker is jean-Michel Ansel and as Willy said, he doesn't like astrology and it's the reason why he prefered these astronomical references, even if it's more difficult to explain. The book is made out of high quality concrete. Metallical lines are directly included

Re: Cadrans Solaires et Vins: Sundilas and Wine

Great Sol ! Thanks a lot. I totally forgot this bottle from Mac already on my website : http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/cylindre-d-azimut.html I added it on the sundial wine page : http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/cadrans-solaires-etiquettes-vin.html Best wishes Joël - Original Message -

Re: For January 1st, 2011!

Thanks Richard, I will add this one to my collection. Joël -- http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/ - Original Message - From: Richard B. Langley l...@unb.ca To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 1:47 PM Subject: Re: For January 1st, 2011! There used to be a sundial

Re: The Jacobs Glass Sphere Dial

Hi John and all, Maybe you are right for the spot, I think also it's to avoid to burn people as the sundial for blind people http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/cadran-solaire-pour-aveugles.html (I made some trials with a fish globe and I stopped it for security reason) Joël - Original Message

Another Human Gnomon ... Vertical in Bruz (France)

Hi John, Patrick, Willy, Fer and all, Here is the new one I began last winter: http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/style-humain-bruz.html the vertical morning part is finished now, I will complete later by the horizontal afternoon part Best wishes Joël http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/

Re: A Human Horizontal Sundial?

Hi John and all, I made a page on these kind of dials http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/style-humain.html Is this dial correctly designed? Or is the human just standing in the wrong place? In my page, you can see another photo of the same dial of Nice

Dam sundial and Translations

Hi Fer and all, Fer is right, it's the same as for a sphere. For the dam, you need to find the point of the ballustrade where an hour plane tangents the ballustrade and then the hour line is the intersection of this hour plane and the dam cone which could be drawn with a laser. My favorite

Re: Translations

://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/ - Original Message - From: Jack Aubert jaub...@cpcug.org To: f.w.m...@rug.nl; 'Steve' steve-ir...@cox.net; 'robic.joel' robic.j...@wanadoo.fr; 'Sundial List' sund...@rrz.uni-koeln.de Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:27 PM Subject: RE: Translations The lava strips are made

Re: French dam to be world´s biggest sundial

Hello Frans and all, It's the Castillon Dam, see this AFP article, you will understand easiler the principle http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gFPjvks3c5EemskZkRWhCB-Fu_IA More information is available in French Cadran Info magazine (including modelling by Gérard Baillet and

Re: Translations

- From: Steve steve-ir...@cox.net To: robic.joel robic.j...@wanadoo.fr; Sundial related list with international audience sundial@uni-koeln.de Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:32 AM Subject: Translations Confrere: I am interested in translating email and web pages into English. I use as example

Re: [gnomonicaitaliana] the gnomonist question of the day --- the ANSWER

Hello all sundial lovers Do you remember my game: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/cadrans-interactifs.html Let us point out the clues, some were useless: - it has got 4 CDs== BAD CLUE - the CDs are on a helix ==

the gnomonist question of the day

Hello all sundial lovers I have a gnomonic game for you (in French and English only, sorry for Italian people): How to read the time on this dial http://pagesperso-orange.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/cadrans-interactifs.html Here are some clues, warning some are useless: - it has got 4 CDs -

Re: Ezanic Hours

Hi Roger and all, Recently, I found someone who translated Kairrouan dial inscriptions, I added on my page (sorry only in French) http://pagesperso-orange.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/Kairouan.html The inscriptions mean for example 1 hour before sunset, 2 hours ... for 23 or 22 Italic hours

Re: Eclipses

MessageHi Hans, Here is a little dial and amusing dial from Maurice Kieffer http://pagesperso-orange.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/images/IMG_1117-cadran-Kieffer.JPG at 11:00 and for August declination, you can see the little hole of the 1999 eclipse I can try to get a photo with more definition

Re: Sundial classification

Hello Ricardo, I can propose the French classification created by Pierre-Joseph Dallet for his software Solarium with Paul Gagnaire's help for the names and my translation: - Class: Spatial geometrical shape of the dial (Plane, conical, cylindrical, spherical, back of a man's hand etc.) -

Re: astronomical clock - English version

Thanks to Willy and his magical excel, I tried to compare with my photos, you can see here: http://horloge.astronomique.free.fr/horloges-europe.html (sorry only French comments) We can see that Italic hours were not correct in 1995 but are correct now. Have fun also with your photos ! Joël

Re: Dali sundial +

For sundials in Paris you can see Andree Gotteland site (and book): http://www2.saf-lastronomie.com/csmp/arr5n/centrea51.html Joël 48°01'25'' N, 1°45'40 O --- http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Terwilliger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: An old globe sundial found in a garden in France !

Hello all, Thanks to all of you who sent me photos and articles on similar dials, I updated my page (not finished yet): http://pagesperso-orange.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/cadran-boule.html Thank you for your help ! Joël from France 48°01'25'' N, 1°45'40 O --- http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/

An old globe sundial found in a garden in France !

Dear Mike and all, Just imagine ... you dig in your garden and you find an old globe sundial ! See here what someone found in France: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/cadran-boule.html I don't know other dials of this kind in France, only globe dials with meridian mobile

Re: An old globe sundial found in a garden in France !

is at the zenith, similar to Jean-Michel Ansel's one in Ludiver for example http://pagesperso-orange.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/cadran-parc-ludiver.html Joël from France 48°01'25'' N, 1°45'40 O --- http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/ - Original Message - From: fer de vries To: robic.joel

Re: Article in March BSS bulletin

You can see a photo on: http://perso.orange.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/cadran-kate-pond.html Best regards, Joël 48°01'25'' N, 1°45'40 O --- http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/ - Original Message - From: fer de vries To: Chris Lusby Taylor ; Bill CS.Com ; sundial@uni-koeln.de Sent:

Re: Sundial pendant

Hello Franz I agree with Roger, it seems to come from Artissime, you can see other examples (without yin and yang) from Briançon shop on the jpeg. And another similar one made by Yves Opizzo here : http://perso.orange.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/images/IMG_1124.JPG Best regards Joël

Re: Europes largest horizontal sundial

Fer, The Mont Saint Michel worked only one time. See here : http://maget.maget.free.fr/SiteMont/index.html But what about the Obelisc in the Center of Paris, visible on Google Earth, see on François Blateyron website : http://perso.orange.fr/blateyron/sundials/fr/vuduciel.html Joël 48°01'25''

Re: Paris: Sundial working with Fiberglass

Hi sundials lovers, Another page (French and English) on this famous dial in Paris (my first dial of the Month) http://perso.orange.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/cadran-halles-paris.html With references on 2 other fiberglass dials And a photo of François Blateyron from google earth, the fourth

Re: Is this a sundial... continued

Bob and all, As I told before when I sent the link with the sunny picture, we can see that the hour lines (cables) are not at the right place : they point to the base of the perpendicular gnomon. It's the "sundial of an artist" For those who understand French, I can show another example

Re: Is this a sundial? --- a photo with the sun

I've founda link on this project by an artist, Marina Gutierrez: http://www.cityarts.org/program.html http://www.cityarts.org/gallery.php and clickon thephoto with sun There seem to have hour lines, as describedon the forum below but not at the right position !!!

Re: Dial makers in France

Hello Doug I think Alain gave you the best, see some of his realizations here : http://perso.orange.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/cadran-parc-ludiver.html But you can also have a list on François Blateyron website : http://perso.orange.fr/blateyron/sundials/fr/cadraniers.html Hope this helps

Re: Conical Gnomon Advantages

Hi John, I agree with Chris but I disagree with you, if you rotate the disk, this will make an ellipse It's too late here in France to make a drawing, but I let you try. Best regards, Joël48°01'25'' N, 1°45'40" O--- http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/ - Original Message - From:

Re: Terminator

Thank you Doug, Another one very different but interesting too on the equinox day, have a look on my favorite sundial, in the South of France http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/cadran-mines.html Joël 48°01'25'' N, 1°45'40 O http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/ - Original

Re: Sundials in Provence (France)

Hello Martin, You can have a look on my site, on original dials : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/originaux-france.html#regions see Tavel (30) Roussillon (84) Marseille and Istre (13) which are in Provence and some photos of Luberon :

Oldest sundials of America ?

Greetings fellow dialists, I want to ask if someone knows which are the oldest sundial in America ? I can propose 2 old ones from Yucatan in Mexico: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/Cadran-mexique.html (as you can see, I have also some questions on them) Thank you for

Re: Normandy / Brittany sundials / observatory ?

Welcome in the West of France For Brittany, you can see the website of Jean-Paul Cornec: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jean-paul.cornec/index.html On my own website, I have made a dedicated page on some Brittany dials: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cadrans.solaires/cadrans/originaux-bretagne.html and for

Re: Curiosity Dept: Ice sundial

Title: Message Hi David, You can seean Ice Sundial... atthe 1997 burning man festival in Nevada !!!http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/1997/97_art.html scroll down to "Temporal Decomposition" by Jim Mason Of course, it was not a permanent sundial...Note:At the end of the 1999

Re: Zarbula's Method for Wall Declination

I am not sure to understand Zarbula and Indian circle methods but perhaps this can help for your last question. I know this relation is validated : sin (D) = tan (X) / tan (L) D = wall declination X = angle between the equinoctial line and an horizontal line L = Latitude But I am not