sundial on sale

2011-03-17 Thread Fabio Savian
Hi all this mornig I found this google alert http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11int_new=45765 ciao Fabio Fabio Savian fabio.sav...@nonvedolora.it Paderno Dugnano, Milan, Italy 45° 34' 10'' N 9° 10' 9'' E GMT +1 (DST +2)---

Re: sundial on sale

2011-03-17 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Fabio et al,   Thank you for posting this. It is a dial with an interesting provenance and will be described in a detailed article in the June issue of the BSS Bulletin. Book you copy now!   Regards,   John Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Thu, 17/3/11, Fabio

the end of my quest concerning the clock of Prague

2011-03-17 Thread Willy Leenders
My quest for the state of the clock of Prague has given a result. The clock would have to indicate the local solar time as before. To please the tourists who assemble there, the clock indicates Central European Time. It was originally set to mean solar time and from time tot time it was manually

Re: solar tracking sundial

2011-03-17 Thread Aimo Niemi
Hi Brent Find below a link to my solar tracking sun dial toy. http://pc-calculator.110mb.com/tracker/solartracker.html Regards, Aimo Niemi 2011/3/16 Brent bren...@verizon.net Hello; I have an idea to build a mechanical sundial. It would have a moving gnomon that would track the sun.

Re: solar tracking sundial

2011-03-17 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Something like this: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:20100714-012_Amersfoort_-_Zonnewijzer.jpg Thibaud At 21:50 16-3-2011, Brent wrote: Hello; I have an idea to build a mechanical sundial. It would have a moving gnomon that would track the sun. If the gnomon was a hollow pipe, a spot of