Dear all,
Mishail Ivanov informed me of this auction for a Persian astrolabe:
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/123871365_persian-astrolabe-c-17th-century
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Dan-George Uza
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I found following link and the associated talk fascinating and in keeping
with the rest of the series.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/aU8eDjPFTQy35wPaAhSLGg
I hope that those outside the UK are able to listen
Regards
Andrew Pettit
Dear Friends,
you ca see on my web site
http://www.nicolaseverino.it
the updates n. 02 of the links about the digitized books of gnomonica is
ready.
More, also you can see the new project related the links of the ancient
digitized books about the Astrolabe and a
dettailed Gnomonic
Dear fellow shadow watchers,
last week I had a fascinating visit in Abtwil/Swiss.
Have a look at
http://www.astrolabe.ch
and Instruments with sundials.
For the German speaking audience I higly recommend :
Martin Brunold: ?Der Messing-Himmel?
Best regards
a question that may seem incongruous: has anyone seen the
episode of The Simpsons where Homer is walking around with a rather large
astrolabe? I know it sounds strange that someone with Homer's IQ is holding an
astrolabe, but maybe he read Jim Morrison's great book! My memory is that Homer
wins
I have to admit I've never thought of a talking (or singing or dancing)
astrolabe. I'm guilty of not thinking outside the Tropics.
Now, the question becomes; What would it say? Don't have a Taurus, man
seems inappropriate somehow. Maybe it should emit an audible sigh when it's
properly
Greetings all,
With their usual impersonal and rather scary efficiency, Amazon have just
delivered to me a copy of Jim Morrison's book The Astrolabe. Ordered on-line
11 Jan, had to wait for stock (as Jim warned us), delivered on 18 Feb in
Australia. Not bad.
If you haven't bought the book
In response to several requests, some of which came from sundial subscribers, I have added a function to The Electric Astrolabe to save an image of the graphics screens. You can download the updated program from:
www.astrolabes.org/electric.htm
You do not need to download the User's Guide
Greetings fellow dialists,
For many years on my old computer I've enjoyed viewing Jim Morrison's
Electric Astrolabe (and it has lots of useful material for dialists). Now
with my new computer and Windows XP I seem unable to download the programme.
Can anyone offer an expanation and, even more
Greetings fellow dialists,
I've had kind responses from many for my Electric Astrolabe problem
including a zipfile from the master himself (many thanks, Mr. Jim Morrison).
Not solved yet, it's obviously my computer but am working on it. I can get
the initial astrolabe pic which completely fills
Greetings fellow dialists,
For many years on my old computer I've enjoyed viewing Jim Morrison's
Electric Astrolabe (and it has lots of useful material for dialists). Now
with my new computer and Windows XP I seem unable to download the programme.
Can anyone offer an expanation and, even more
ingles?
SOLO HABLO CASTELLANO
EL GRINGO NO ME VA
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If you speak only Castilian, so that fixed you your question in English? ALONE I SPEAKCASTILIAN THE GRINGO (FOREIGNER) DOES NOT GO TO ME
I guess that doesn't make much more sense than the spanish!
Troy
In a message dated 7/20/02 1:59:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My interest in sundial and astrolabe. I try to find the explanation about
these subjects in the internet. Unfortunately I didn't find the
information that I want. Can you recommended web site to me regarding
these 2 subjects?
For astrolabes the best place is http://www.astrolabes.org
:-(
I find it interesting that aircrew were issued with astrolabes, for
that's what it is, during the Second World War. Strictly, perhaps, it
isn't an astrolabe in that it has no alidade and no scales on the
reverse, and the projection isn't stereographic. The instructions show
how you can identify
-Mensaje original-
De: Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Para: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Fecha: Martes, 17 de Abril de 2001 01:07 p.m.
Asunto: Astrolabe on coin
On the Chech coin of 20 Crowns is a picture of an astrolabe.
Is this a copy of an existing one
: Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Para: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Fecha: Martes, 17 de Abril de 2001 01:07 p.m.
Asunto: Astrolabe on coin
On the Chech coin of 20 Crowns is a picture of an astrolabe.
Is this a copy of an existing one or is it a design made only
On the Chech coin of 20 Crowns is a picture of an astrolabe.
Is this a copy of an existing one or is it a design made only for the coin?
I was in Brno, Czech Republic last year and got one of these in
my change. I went back again later for a vacation and asked at our
hotel to see
reproductions of a astrolabe.
The address was:
Georg Kerstensteiner, Isatorplatz 1, 8000 Muenchen 2.
The shop isn't there anymore. Anybody knows where it is now? Do they have a
website?
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Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
52°18'19.85 North
The astrolabe web site URL has changed to www.astrolabes.org. Those of you who
have links to the old URL may want to change it, even though the old one is
supposed to work for at least a year.
Best regards,
Jim
James E. MorrisonAstrolabe web pages at: http://www.astrolabes.org
and had a
high regard for me. May seem strange to a non-Australian, but that's
how many things work here.
ELECTRIC ASTROLABE
I took my notebook on the trip to demonstrate some software to the
students, and one of the programs was Electric Astrolabe. Blew them
away. WOW!
We set it up for the field
Fer de Vries found a small problem in The Electric Astrolabe related to the
calculation of local sidereal time when dynamical time is applied. An
updated version as been placed on the astrolabe web site at
http://myhouse.com/mc/planet/astrodir/electric.htm.
You can download just the updated
I, too enjoy the Electric Astrolabe, and am happy to report that it even
runs ok on my Toshiba laptop running NT4 sr3 . (DISCLAIMER: your NT results
may vary :-)).
However, as the denizens of this list appear to this lurker to be the
hands-on types, I'd like to point out that Jim also makes
Although Fer de V. did thank
for the Electric Astrolabe,
I would like once more to thank Jim Morrison
for his noble gift to diallists.
Best regards
Krzysztof Kotynia
I tried the electric astrolabe and I decided to use it in a course
dedicated to people that teach Astronomy in middle and high italian
schools. I would like to thank James E. Morrison, Janus.
Some years ago I wrote a similar program in alto-azimutal coordinates. A
window coloured version
Although astrolabes are not sundials in the strictest sense, many sundial
enthusiasts are also interested in astrolabes. I just wanted to let anyone
who is interested know that I have just made a fully animated planetarium
program in the form of a planispheric astrolabe available for free
The site mentioned below by Angelo Merletti does a wonderful job of creating
an astrolabe like device. It is a form of astrolabe in the sense that any
instrument that uses altitudes to position celestial objects can be called
an astrolabe. It is not, however, the instrument that is usually
The old book by W. Schroeder , Practical Astronomy , is a good
reference.
It has many pages devoted to the astrolabe theory and shows a graphic way to
make an astrolabe. If you are familiar with math you'll find quite easy to
translate the graphic instructions in trig formulae in order
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chaucer-astro.html
At 11:22 AM 4/16/98 EDT, you wrote:
By chance would anyone here happen to have any instructions on making an
Astrolabe? Or mayby a copy of some of the varous treatise on the subject from
some old manuscripes. that could be scanned
By chance would anyone here happen to have any instructions on making an
Astrolabe? Or mayby a copy of some of the varous treatise on the subject from
some old manuscripes. that could be scanned in?
David R. Carlson
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