... My question then is: is there a general name for the hours > shown on a canonical dial? > ----------------
Yes, of course. The word is simply "hours". There are no other names because in medieval time they used the same latin language, there are some sundials that have the standard division (12, 8, 6, 4) and marked the canonical hours (times) between them. In medieval England they used the word "tided" or "tid", but the meaning of that word, readind old manuscripts, seems to be sometime generic (as "time") sometime specifical (as "hour"). There is another way to call that kind of hours in 12th century France, and is "Demures", there is only one manuscript that uses this word and is written in old French language as Anglo-saxon dialet. in this case too, the word is used in two way, to understand an amout of time or an hour. Mario P.S. For those interested, I changed house, down here is my new address -------------------------------------------------------- Mario Arnaldi Via Cavour, 57c I-48100 - Ravenna Lat. 44° 25' N - Lon. 12° 12' E Italy E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://digilander.iol.it/McArdal Shop: http://web.tiscalinet.it/McArdal ----------------------------------------------------------- -
