Thank you Reinhold! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In einer eMail vom 28.04.02 20:26:34 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit > schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > >> Dear Reinhold, thank you for this information. >> Please advise if you hear of a translation to English or other. >> Kind regards, >> Thierry vs >> 50.5N 4.3E >> > > Dear Thierry, > > as far as I remember there are links in English language available in > the Internet. I think I have seen them two or three years ago. Perhaps > a direct contact with the editor of the really very beautiful book > "Peter Apian",Karl Röttel will help? After Chris Taylor wrote to me... > > >That was a Julian date. In the current Grgorian calendar, I think his > birthday would be April 7th. But I wish him a Happy Birthday, > whenever. > Regards > Chris< > > ...I have asked Prof. Scheurer about the correct date and he handed my > question over to Mr. Röttel. > He answered: > Es gibt gar kein Geburtsdatum von Peter Apian, also braucht man auch > nicht > viel umrechnen. Die genannten Geburtsdatums stammen alle aus > irgendwelcher > Literatur; die echte Quelle, auf die sich einst ein Nachfahre Apians > berief, > existiert nicht (bzw. heute nicht mehr). > Which means, that the original list of sources got lost. So there > would be no need to convert the Julian date :-) > > If you want to ask him directly: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Anyway: APIAN is a most interesting person with a great work! He had > also been pretty clever in economical things and was pretty rich with > a lot of different belongings. Only one generation after his decease > everything was gone by the wind. But there are still Apian > descendants. When I was in Landshut at Burg Trausnitz and asked for > permission to stay a bit longer at the sundial, the guide asked me > whether I would also be from the Apian - family as only a week before > he had guided a group of them. > > If you get a good answer concerning English language links of Apian, > please let me know. It might be useful for others. > > Best > Reinhold > > * ** *** **** ***** ****** ******* > Reinhold R. Kriegler > Lat: 53° 06' 53'' N > Long: 8° 53' 54" E > > ttp://planetarium.hs-bremen.de/planetarium/astroinfo/sonnenuhren/kriegler/r2.htm -
