In Druid Hill Park in Baltimore, Maryland there is a compendium dial which
bears the inscription "SINE UMBRA NIHIL." My Latin is not good enough to
confirm what I suspect is a double entendre. Could this inscription
mean, without torturing the language, both "without shadow there is nothing,"
and
I've heard that on an internet mailing list there is a spirited
discussion about The Ambassadors, a painting by Holbein, and that the
discussion focuses on the scientific instruments, including a compendium
sundial, shown in the painting. Does anyone know what list is hosting
this discussion?
With apologies to the author:
In summer's time, observe this rule:
Turn your back to the sun.
But if, when winter's time is here,
You might stand tall, and turn
Your countenance toward the sun,
You'll want to hear what is below.
It is correct to fifteen minutes,
I'd be grateful for the URL (if there is one) where I could find
information and a Registration Form for the annual meeting of the
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Chronometrie, which I think will be held in
May.
Thank you
George McDowell
I will soon visit Germany and would be grateful for directions to sundials
on display in Frankfurt am Main, Marburg, and Halberstadt. Thank you.
Please reply to George McDowell, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ich werde bald Deutschland besuchen. Ich moechte die Sonnenuhren des
Frankfurt am Main, Marburg, und
