>> For example, it seems to have been established that some of the >> instruments are >> >> misaligned, as possible symbols of impending chaos, or aligned to the >> date of >> Good Friday 1533. >> >> "But cleaning of the picture has established that each one of the >> instruments >> to the right of the celestial globe - a cylindrical shepherd's dial, >> two >> quadrants, a polyhedral sundial and a torquetum - are all curiously >> misaligned >> for use in a northerly latitude. This is unlikely to have been an >> oversight on >> the artist's part, since one of his closest friends in London was the >> astronomer Nikolaus Kratzer (...)"
one wonders, assuming the instruments were borrowed, perhaps they were still set from some ocean trip, and not the masters, but some gentlemans aboard who did not use them daily, then perhaps the settings are a clue to the voyage. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
