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Come out here the boy who said "About time too!" <<
I guess you're usually propping up bars :-)
Richard.
E-mail from: Richard Mallett, 23-Sep-2003
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Can anyone point me to suitable styles of dial (probably from the
Spanish-speaking world) that would be appropriate to the site, please.
Oops,
(Sorry, I pressed the key before I finished)
John,
Take a look at www.relojesdesol.org/soler.html
There are a lot of 'classical' sundials from
Maybe some of you will remember a rather complete booklet by Gianni Ferrari
on how to determine wall azimuths by many methods... like the one of the
corner shadow.
Well, this method is very simple but not so much accurate as one could
imagine.
There are two main sources of error or inaccuracy
Can anyone point me to suitable styles of dial (probably from the
Spanish-speaking world) that would be appropriate to the site, please.
John,
Take a look at www.relojesdesol.org/Soler.html
Regards,
Anselmo Perez Serrada
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Spanish colonial art in the Americas was almost entirely religious in
nature, but it was very colorful. Paintings were often done on building
walls. There are no sundials on any of the Spanish missions in Arizona.
John L. Carmichael Jr.
925 E. Foothills Dr.
Tucson Arizona, USA
Tel: 520-696-170
at the right side before the entrance.
The obelisk at the left side of the entrance is still there.
Thibaud Chabot
At 12:56 23-09-2003, you wrote:
The Place de La Concorde was constructed under the July Monarchy between
1936 and 1846 and an obelisk of Ramses II sent back from Luxor by Nap
Jack,
I admire your efforts to find a good explanation of the inscription
"au levant de Thebes surgit a Paris le nord" on the 12-hour line of the
sundial at the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
Your statement "the Obelisk itself, which is oriented along with the
whole Place on a north-south axis ..
Maybe it's a message from the RATP with just a few letters wrong.
It actually should say:
Au levant, du Barbès (on) surgit à Paris Nord
But seriously, I did forward this query to a French History mailing list
I subscribe to and am waiting for some response from there. (All
the history Professors
Conxita,
You ask "Do you know the date of this inscription?" ("AU LEVANT DE THEBES
SURGIT A PARIS LE NORD").
The sundial at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, a project that dates back
to 1913, interrupted by world-war I, taked again in 1938, interrupted by
world-war II, is in his present-day ex
Barry N. Wainwright wrote:
>From a Frenchman:
Levant has two meanings: sunset and East
Not sunset, but sunrise, as was indeed corrected below:
I understand the sentence as:
"In Paris, the north rises at the East (or sunrise) of Thebes"
And a third (now not so common anymore) meani
Bill,
Could it be possible to read: "A LA MANIERE DU LEVANT" DE THEBES SURGIT A
PARIS LE NORD?
(In the same way that civilisation arised in Thebes, it has resurged -or
resurges now- in Paris).
Do you know the date of this inscription? I think the words "Levant" and
"Nord" has been carefully c
Hi Claude,
Thanks very much for taking the time to research this for me. Martha Villegas
has directed me to some useful sites in Mexico and it seems that there wasn't a
single style of dials for this type of building. So my colleague (who is a
client for a brass dial) can let his imagination
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