Hi Sara, Richard et al,
Sixteenth century wall dials of any sort are rare and have usually been
repainted many times so it is not always clear how original the design is.
There are a few 17th century dials with planetary hours around: you can see a
couple in the articleM. Lowne & J. D
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>From Rich Kremer:
Sixteenth-century wall dials with planetary hours?
Around 1550, Zacharias Scultetus designed two wall dials for the facade of a
handsome Renaissance-style house in Görlitz, Germany (see:
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At 04:03 AM 5/16/2007, fer de vries wrote:
So far as I know this time sytem isn't seen on any real sundial.
Planetary hours do appear on a fair number of renaissance sundials
and astronomical compendia. They are usually given in the form of a
table of information that assigns the ruling planet
Sara,
Yes, there are many dials with planetary hours as seasonal or unequal hours,
but what I meant to say is that I never saw a real dial with planetary hours
as
Drecker defined.
In the note by Drecker is written as defintion by Sacrobosco:
Hora naturalis est spatium temporis, in quo medietas
