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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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
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 Send key before I finished)
John,
Take a look at www.relojesdesol.org/soler.html
There are a lot of 'classical' sundials
Tomorrow is the equinox (at least for my longitude), and today I took a
time-lapse movie of the beams of light crossing at Kate Pond's Odyssey of Light
at
solar noon. Tomorrow will be overcast, which is why I couldn't wait for the
genuine equinox date. It was a bit overcast today as well,
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 chosen
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
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:
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
Reply to : Tony Moss
This automatic 'reply all' system drives me to distraction - and
probably behind bars!
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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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
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)
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
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