new update on the Schmoyer sundial

1999-06-22 Thread David R. Gagnon
My dear fellow dialists Since I last posted on this subject, Laurel Browning has received a check from Harris Morrison toward the cost of replacing the lost gnomon pattern for the Schmoyer sundial (Sunquest sundial). The original pattern makers are now at work on a new pattern and will be

Re: New NASS Pages on the World Wide Web

1999-06-22 Thread Jim_Cobb
Dear Friends, The North American Sundial Society is pleased to announce its new domain and Home Page on the World Wide Web. [...] The URL is: http://sundials.org Best regards, Bob Terwilliger I was struck by the lighted flat map of the world on the page,

A couple of items on the web concerning the sun

1999-06-22 Thread Jim_Cobb
http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/etcetera/wires/0622/e_rt_0622_2.sml World's Largest Sundial - But No Sun Reuters 8:36 a.m. ET (1237 GMT) June 22, 1999 PARIS - France inaugurated the world's largest sundial Monday, using an ancient Egyptian obelisk as the pin and Paris's famed Place

Re: New NASS Pages on the World Wide Web

1999-06-22 Thread Jim_Cobb
Robert Terwilliger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, The North American Sundial Society is pleased to announce its new domain and Home Page on the World Wide Web. We are releasing the URL to members of The Sundial Mailing List so they can get a preview. Please visit the site and

Re: New NASS Pages on the World Wide Web

1999-06-22 Thread John Pickard
Robert, I like the NASS website. The world map with night shown as grey (note the correct spelling!) is BRILLIANT. Very elegant. Took me a few minutes to realise what it was showing, but it rerally is very nicely conceived and executed. Of course, the website is a conspiracy to transfer

Solstice sunrise

1999-06-22 Thread Jon Urwin
Thank you everyone for the interest you've shown in my photos. To save clogging up mailboxes, I have published them on a (hastily put together!) web page. If you would like these photos, please feel free to download them at www.jonurwin.dircon.co.uk/sunrise. I have put thumbnail pics on the

Millenium solstice mixup

1999-06-22 Thread Jon Urwin
Fellow diallists I stand corrected! Of course, there is at least one more Summer Solstice of this Milennium, according to your hemisphere and definition of Milennium. My apologies to everyone. Oh, and a pint of beer goes to Richard Langley for being the first to produce an animation of the

New NASS Pages on the World Wide Web

1999-06-22 Thread Robert Terwilliger
Dear Friends, The North American Sundial Society is pleased to announce its new domain and Home Page on the World Wide Web. We are releasing the URL to members of The Sundial Mailing List so they can get a preview. Please visit the site and send any comments or corrections to the Webmaster

Re: New NASS Pages on the World Wide Web

1999-06-22 Thread Ron Anthony
Bob, Great job. I especially like your treatment of the NASS logo. As shown, it would make a nice piece of jewelry. ++ron -Original Message- From: Robert Terwilliger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sundial Mailing List sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 9:57 AM Subject:

Re: sundial bracelet

1999-06-22 Thread Tom Semadeni
Which reminds me of Alexander's affliction: Lack of a second hand so he couldn't take Aristotle's minutes. *Groan* Sol Invictus: Traditionally tonight is a time of delightful frivolity. Greg Lambertson wrote: This reminds me of Aristotle's experiments with wine-soaked cloth, which