Re: On shadow sharpeners

2002-06-21 Thread Edley McKnight
Hi Anselmo and dialists all, When I went back into the NASS compendiums in the search for shadow sharpeners I found that instead of an article it was mostly excerpts from this list itself, so, yes, it would be nice to have it all pulled together from the archives. There are a number of

Re: The heliochronometer

2002-06-21 Thread john . davis
Hi Bob et al, heliochronometer is indeed listed in the BSS Glossary, under the Dial types category. The definition given is: a precision sundial which incorporates some means to allow it to read civil (or mean) time. This is usually achieved by incorporating an EoT cam (as in the

Re: seminar

2002-06-21 Thread DMBsundial
Tony Moss - nice to hear of your offer re OHP materials and PDF/JGIF diags on Adobe Illustrator. Also interested in your JPEGs of shots of the 3D version. Please send whatever you can. Thanks. David Brown -

Re: (no subject)

2002-06-21 Thread DMBsundial
Wall declination using carpenter's square. Look in Waugh, and follow the method suggested where he has a nail through a vertical board pressed against the wall. David Brown -

Re: seminar

2002-06-21 Thread DMBsundial
Tony Moss - nice to hear of your offer re OHP materials and PDF/JGIF diags on Adobe Illustrator. Also interested in your JPEGs of shots of the 3D version. Please send whatever you can. Thanks. David Brown -