While we are figuring out who made mistakes (if any) while restoring
this piece, here is a translation of the text accompanying the Flash
gallery on the Wilanow Palace page at
http://www.wilanow-palac.art.pl/index.php?id=195 :
[First page]
Vertical sundial situated on the southern facade of the
Dear Roger et al,
What fun!
I fully concur with Chris Lusby Taylor's analysis
though if you can trust anything about this trio
of dials you can infer that the wall declines very
slightly to the east...
All three equinoctial lines slope downwards to
the right (though not quite to the same
Dear ALL,
what I wonder for a good while:
Why is no one from Poland joining this discussion?
They have founded a Sundial Society in 2006 and I am pretty sure that some
of them are also connected with Daniel RothÂ’s Sundial Mailing-list.
So this is a sincere invitation to POLAND, to
Hi Jan et al
Thank you for the translation. It confirms that the left and right dials
should be Italian and Babylonian.
From the high-res picture, I think I can see that the hour lines are
inscribed into the surface, not painted. So they are probably original and
it is the painted numbers that
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
A recent event makes it
incumbent upon me to clarify the design and production history of what
currently remains the most northerly sundial on earth at Longyearbyen on
the island of Svalbard or Spitsbergen as we know it in
I usually try to be upbeat in my emails but I find the following news very
disturbing on so many levels, not the least of which is what this would do
to longitude-corrected dials.
This morning on Fox News cable network the news ticker scrolling at the
bottom of the TV screen says this (this is
Thanks Jan for the Polish to English translations!
You keep surprising us with your abilities.
You are a welcome new member of our Sundial List.
I'm glad you are with us.
John
-Original Message-
From: Jan Bielawski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:12 AM
To:
An observation. While Roman Catholicism membership
exceeded the Church of England membership in England a
few months ago, it is worth pointing out that Islam
now exceeds Christianity worldwide in membership,
according to an analysis in the last month.
Simon
--- John Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED]
With longitude as it is now, it is hard to see how the argument could be made
to move this measuring point nearly 40 degrees to the east. This would in
return put the international date line just beyond the current 140W (running
through the western Yukon in Canada).
The decision to use
--- John Carmichael wrote:
I usually try to be upbeat in my emails but I find
the following news very
disturbing on so many levels, not the least of which
is what this would do
to longitude-corrected dials.
This morning on Fox News cable network the news ticker scrolling at the
bottom of
Dear Tony,
I was about to get in touch when your own
message to the mailing list arrived in my
inbox.
By chance, I met Louise Rigozzi on Saturday
when Mike and Val Cowham and I took three
groups of people on Sundial walks round
Cambridge.
Louise was in my group and introduced herself
as coming
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