Hello Luke,
I think I understand what Fer means about using sundials as the original
users did in their time. I agree with Fer in feeling that a sundial should
be what it is - an indicator of sun time, the time of here and now. Local
Apparent Time is pure time. All other forms and methods,
Chuck O'Connell wrote:
snip...
I would like to create such a site, but I would not want to do it
if people feel strongly that it would endanger the dials.
snip
Your thoughts, please?
Chuck.
Hello Chuck,
As long as we publish dials that are meant to be seen by public it is a
Hello Jim
I really appreciate your message. I understood what you said
in your first message and I understand this one too.
I was just trying to play with the [s]words, no other effect intended :-)
Even though it seems you only read one layer of what I meant
(the humour was supposed to be
Thanks to all of you who sent me pics of the Schmoyer sundial. I
recognized it when I saw it, and it is a very interesting piece.
I will add the pics to my little electronic archive of sundial images. I
am always excited to see sundial pics, so thanks go to Francois as well. I
used to live
This kind of disclaimers are only found in the USA
and on products from the USA ;-)
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That should be ;-(
Ross,
I just LOVED your posting re using a dial to warn of the dangers of
sun burn.
Methinks you were talking just a bit tongue in cheek! Anyone with two
neurones knows that in either bright sun OR glary cloud-obscured sun,
there is a HIGH risk of sun burn (and if cumulative, of skin
Jim,
Being a lover of puns, I thought that your posting was very clever!
Don't worry about being identified with your government. Imagine
living in Australia with a useless Prime Minister who doesn't even
have the common decency to publicly apologise for the way white
Australians have
Hello Charles,
Yes, I understood what Fer meant too, I just happened (in this case)
not to agree. There are many ways of exploring the complex and inspiring
relationship between the celestial and the physical, I wouldn't limit or
enforce any mode of exploring that relationship. I've
Chuck O'Connell wrote:
I would like to create such a site, but I would not want to do it
if people feel strongly that it would endanger the dials.
How about beginning with a site of photos (and info) on sundials which have
been installed in public locations - dials which were designed to be
Mac Oglesby wrote:
a dial to indicate
relative sunburn danger. Installed at a swimming pool or beach, this type
of dial wouldn't even need any hour lines - regions of color would alert
the sunbather as to when (s)he would burn most rapidly.
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Patrick Powers has a point here, but on balance I think fernando (with a
small 'f' !) has a stronger point. If we can't ever enjoy these things,
then there really is no point in having them. I think there is another
argument. Rather like the world of art (paintings, mainly) the better a
piece is
A paper recently put on the web about pinhole photography has a section
about something called a 'Pinspeck Camera' that might have the same
properties as the bead in the hole shadow sharpener.
See: http://www.pinhole.com/resources/articles/Young/index.html
and look down near the end of the
Mac Oglesby wrote:
a dial to indicate
relative sunburn danger. Installed at a swimming pool or beach, this type
of dial wouldn't even need any hour lines - regions of color would alert
the sunbather as to when (s)he would burn most rapidly.
As an optical/solar physicist, I was
Mac Oglesby wrote
(snip)
My 36-page manual on designing and building an hours to
sunset
sundial is still available via email. It's free, and worth
every penny.
(snip)
I'll agree to that - thanks to Mac's manual, I now have one
on the rear of my house (declines 76 degrees West of South)
- the
At 16:03 13-5-99 -0400, you wrote:
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Mac Oglesby wrote:
a dial to indicate
relative sunburn danger. Installed at a swimming pool or beach, this type
of dial wouldn't even need any hour lines - regions of color would alert
the
Hello,
Following Peter's excellent idea:
It seems sensible to develop an international registration system which:
1)Assigns a unique identifier to each dial, with priority given to publicly
accessible dials.
2)Stores identifiers and pics of each dial in some sort of web accessible
Dear All,
May I suggest another dial that needs no corrections. If one were to use the
antique hours - the ancient hours of unequal length - but divide up the
daylight into fractions (1/4, 1/2, 3/4) or percents (10%, 20%, 30% ...) the
dial would indicate how much of the daylight has passed or
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