Architectural drawings

2014-11-30 Thread Darek Oczki
Hello A new set of historical drawings with sundials in the background. http://gnomonika.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26t=1740start=110 -- Best regards Darek Oczki 52N 21E Warsaw, Poland GNOMONIKA.pl Sundials in Poland http://gnomonika.pl ---

Sundials of India

2014-11-30 Thread Darek Oczki
Hello All I am very much interested in ancient India. Let's call it Vedic times. Does anyone here have any knowledge about time measuring of that period? And I do not mean Jantar Mantar observatories but rather times much much prior to that. Someone just sent me this Youtube video about a

Re: Sundials of India

2014-11-30 Thread John Pickard
Thanks for the link Darek to a fascinating clip. I can't comment on the veracity of the interpretation, but it's obvious that the guide / narrator had no knowledge of the equation of time. Also the central axles do not appear to have a hole for a thin gnomon, so there's a bit of a problem about

Re: Sundials of India

2014-11-30 Thread Peter Mayer
Hi Darek, For what it's worth: I think the interpretation is balderdash... The 'traditional' understanding of the wheels is that the temple is conceived as a chariot which is being drawn towards the sun, to which the temple is dedicated. As the Wikipedia entry notes: The