Dear Sir, I will be very thankfull if you could send italian hours sundial calculation manual to me.
Thank you in advance. Giedrius Blagnys, Lithuania [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [email protected] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mac Oglesby) >Subject: Italian Hours Sundial Manual >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >Lines: 30 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Length: 1300 >Status: O > > >Hello All, > >A sundial with Italian hour lines labeled in countdown fashion shows hours >remaining until sunset. Although presently rare, these dials are very >intriguing and deserve to be better known. An interesting feature is that >such a dial needs no correcting for longitude, equation of time, or >daylight savings. > >Recently we made and installed a vertical "hours to sunset" sundial at a >small grass airstrip in Vermont, USA, and it has been very well received. >Other likely sites would be boat marinas, ski areas, schools, etc. > >To help others who might wish to design and build a vertical hours to >sunset sundial, I've written a design manual, complete with many worked >examples and including all necessary tables. These dials must be computed >for a particular latitude and declination. Although it is very useful to >have Fer de Vries' program suite, ZONWVLAK, a patient dialist can design an >Italian hours sundial using a basic scientific calculator. The manual is >designed to be sent in four pieces via regular email. > >Should you wish to receive this manual (at no charge), contact me directly >by email. Nothing will be sent unless you specifically request it. I'm >not able to offer printed copies at this time. > >Best, > >Mac Oglesby ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >
