I've highly appreciated your contribution Tony : Plato would have been a great dialler .... Since school-time I remember a Greek sentence (likely said by Plato itself: I don't remember now ...) that would be a perfect motto on our dials ...
<<...>> (God is a geometrician ) Alberto Nicelli Italy ( 45° 28' N ; 7° 52' E) -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Tony Moss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: venerdì 21 gennaio 2000 12.43 A: Sundial Mail List Oggetto: This says it all I think Fellow Shadow Watchers, While trawling through my collection of sundial-related quotations I came across the following which I think worth sharing. The intermediate source is long forgotten but as a dial maker this sums up the pleasure I derive in words far better than any of mine. Tony Moss. P.S. It's not impossible that it came via a contributor to Our Mailing List long ago. "My meaning is certainly not obvious, and I will endeavour to be plainer. I do not mean by beauty of form such beauty as that of animals or pictures, which the many would suppose to be my meaning; but, says the argument, understand me to mean straight lines and circles, and the plain or solid figures which are formed out of them by turning-lathes and rulers and measurers of angles; for these I affirm to be not only relatively beautiful, like other things, but they are eternally and absolutely beautiful, and they have peculiar pleasures, quite unlike the pleasures of scratching." Plato: Philebus, 51. The dialogues of Plato B. Jowett, 3rd Edition
