Hi All,
Good point of Fer de Vries.
I have the following suggestions:
- build a spider-sundial. You will have nice circles for the dates. The
place you can stand as a human shadowcasting person can be on the path. If
you place the majority of the hourlines and no horizon lines, the pattern
Dear fellow shadow-watchers,
I am looking for some examples of sundials which are integrated with (public or
private) buildings.
Like the Walt Disney build for instance.
Does anyone of you has some more examples for me?
kind regards,
Hendrik Hollander
he drawing, they are more visible on large
sundials not small ones. Does that make sense or am I not
understanding you?
But except for that wavy line problem,
I just want to say that I love the rest of Shadows Pro.When a
client comes to
The recent correspondence on meridian alignments has been interesting
but I agree with Andrew James that the 'da
Vinci code' should have the health warning.
How far back do we wish to go with the situation regarding the 'prime
meridian'? Since the time of Ptolemy (the
Almagest man) and
Hello John,
I don't think me E-mail of the 12th got through so
I will repeat it.
I live just about 12 miles from Bitterley where
Henley Hall is located. If you could give me some details of what I am
looking for I will call down there and take some photographs.
Silas Higgon.
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Further to Andrew James message on Roman Striking on Clocks, the saving on
the number of striking blows is much greater than perhaps some non-clockies
might appreciate, as Andrew just drew attention to the two blows saved at 4
o'clock. At 12 only 4 strokes are needed instead of 12, 3 at 11, 2 at
. It is wide ranging but Chapter 2, (The Sun
and Sundials) covers various sundial designs and shows how to make them
using card, sticks, string and such like. It has a fair amount of
mathematics but the author wrote it with the pocket calculator in mind.
Beware of some rather odd type-setting in places
Ian Maddocks wrote, in his interesting description of the Manchester
exhibition, that the proposed Cornbrook device was a sundial based on an
'entropy surface'. One non-mathematical definition of entropy is 'a measure
of disorder'. It would appear that the originator has chosen a most apt
- Original Message -
From: Jon Noring [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 5:53 AM
Subject: New to sundials; interested in heliochronometers
Hello,
For a while I've had an interest in sundials, but never explored that
interest in any detail. I
David,
Could you supply me with directions for 28th please.
Silas.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: BSS Newbury Meeting
The British Sundial Society One Day Meeting at Newbury UK. 28
Hello All,
I think Tony's remarks about the dialmay be correct and
all the gnomons of these ancient(!) dials may be held by Whitworth threaded
screws!
The earliest date from Patrick was 1640 but Richard gives us a
date of 1882 for the publication of the book.
David reinforces this with
Thanks to everyone for their help with the quotationand
treble thanks to you, Patrick!
Silas.
Hello All,
Is anyone aquainted with the following quotation seen on a
dial of 1703 madeby Henry Thomas?
"Amyddst ye flowres I tell ye houres
Tyme wanes awaye as flowres decaye
Beyond ye tombe fresh flowers bloome
Soe man shall ryse aboe ye skyes"
Does anyone know the source of this please?
Hello Jim,
To differentiate between the two scales perhaps you could use
roman numerals for one and arabic for the other. Also, may I suggest that
instead of putting them one above the other that you put one "inside" the other
so that they appear to be side by side. Perhaps you could
I made some Deltacad macro's to draw horizontal
analemmatic sundials. It also was meant to show how to use Deltacad for
sundials.
Recently John Carmichael asked for an improvement of this macro.
His whish was to add points for half hours and so on.
It was rather easy to do, so I added some
Hello Phill,
This message arrived for me by mistake. Thought you
might wish to know.
Silas.
Dear friends,
An expatriateliving in the Middle East is trying to buy
a Coles Sun Compass or its American equivalent. Can anyone please
help?
Silas Higgon.
Hello All,
For some time now I have been working on a
mean-time
dial using the suns azimuth. I have made a quarter scale
model and have posted some images and a description on my website www.sun-dials.net. If you go to WHAT'S
NEW there is a link to AZIMUTH DIAL at the foot of the page.
If
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