A few days ago, I wrote about the poor quality of so-called authentic,
replica instruments on the market:
What bugs me about this kind of rubbish is that for all the effort that
went into making the castings, the company could just as easily have made
them right as wrongIs this just do
Sara wrote (snipped)...
One reader took me to task for my use of the word corrupt and perhaps
others were equally puzzled.
Well, I for one had no problem seeing it as corrupt (modern). But if we
don't like corrupt, how about fraudulent?
The site says the dial is ...an authentic replica
Hi Dave,
A while ago you offered to post sundial material on your website
(since we can no longer send attachments of any appreciable size to
Sundial List members. Does that offer still stand?
I have received some information showing how a 3-D gnomon (though not
a solid) can be (and has
Doesn't the US have any consumer protection legislation to say that products
must be fit for the advertised purpose?
Yes, of course, it does, as does each State. ---This brings me to another
thing that bugged me about the Noble Company. I could not find any place
of business on its
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But I have given my choice of words some
more thought, and I believe the word corrupt was appropriate for our
discussion, even if a bit old fashioned.
I certainly don't have a problem with that. Why feel that you should have
to
The following message appears on the NASS message board:
From Lance Steel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
I own a sundial made of bronze and engraved 1723. It was reputedly
liberated from the grounds of Blenheim palace, Oxford, England during WW
II. I have been trying to find pictures of the back of the
Perhaps better advice would be to send it back to its rightful owners. Does
liberation necessarily mean rape and pillage!
This is in the historical Latin definition of rape, to seize and carry
off.
Roger Bailey
Walking Shadow Designs
N 51 W 115
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
I presume that this dial was patterned after an equatorial dial with a polar
gnomon. Sales were poor because it didn't look like a sundial. Don't
sundials have a triangular thingy called a gnomon? When the triangular
gnomon was added, sales increased dramatically. It now looked like a real
Hello Mac,
I read this message with interest. I'm assuming Anna King has replied to
you. Do you think this gnomon will work?
Regards John (and Merry Christmas)
- Original Message -
From: Mac Oglesby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 9:06
