Re: R: Premieres horloges medievales - Early medieval clocks

Dear Carlo: WOW! I just saw parts of your wonderful website for the first time. I have always made it a point to keep an eye out for exceptional sundial craftsmen because they are so scarce. I can honestly say that your work surpasses anything I have seen by any living clock or sundial maker. I

Re: Passage of time

The best explanation I've heard of the shortening of time as we age is this:  When we are born, each moment is as an eternity.  In fact, those first moments are all that we have perceived and know out of the womb.  As time progresses, a whole year may be half of our complete life, thus doub

Re: A Sundial Glossary

John Davis wrote: > Dear Dialling Colleagues, > > The British Sundial Society (BSS) has decided that a Glossary of dialling > terms would be a good idea. In the meantime, it can be viewed on my > rudimentary web site > at: > > www.btinternet.com/~john.davis > > I'd welcome any feedback, and am

Re: Graphic File Compression

Roger Bailey contributed: >If Tony's pictures are JPEG, they are already well compressed. Can I get >added to your list Tony? > My images are processed in Adobe Photoshop, often to remove distracting objects from the background, then saved as JPEGs. The compression is enormous - down from typi

Re: A Sundial Glossary

Dear John. I just had some time to read your glossary of sundial terms and I wrote down some remarks as you asked for. When I finished my job I saw an update on the sundial list so it is possible that my remarks are no longer of use to you, but I still will send them as an attached file comment.z

R: Premieres horloges medievales - Early medieval clocks

-Messaggio Originale- Da: Jack Aubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A: Francis Nouaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Data invio: giovedì 9 dicembre 1999 3.21 Oggetto: Re: Premieres horloges medievales - Early medieval clocks > C'est très beau, mais qu'est-ce que c'est un foliot? + A foli

Passage of time

Pam,I once saw a show on TV that set forth the theory that the perceived passageof time is related to the subject's rate of metabolism.Kids have a high rate of metabolism, and time seems to creep for them.As we grow older, our metabolism slows down, and time seems to accelerateaccordingly.In

Re: Graphic File Compression

[Roger Bailey] >The ultimate solution was to download LView from the web > and use it to save the bmp and tif files as JPEG >files. The compression was over 30 times! Although JPEG is a lossey >compression, the quality was indistinguishable for me from the originals. >From w