Re: Earliest Sundials

Sat, 1 Jan 2005 11:29:08 -0500 (EST)

Dear Mario,
 
Wien, Austria, Stephansdom Cathedral, Sundial :
Georg of Peuerbach (1423-1461), mathematican and astronomer at the University of Vienna. The sundial which he presumably built at this location in 1451 does not exist any more. However, there is no proof of it.
The existing sundial on this place today became builtly presumably 1554.
The sundial was restored 2003.
 
 
The sundial in Waldhausen, Strudengau, Upper Austria, parish church, nave, is dated with 1454.
This sundial is not in my homepage.
 
The sundial in Stubenberg, Styria, Herberstein castle, is dated with 1561.
I my homepage I have mistakenly indicated the construction date with 1521. I corrected this error in my homepage.
 
Regards
 
Karl Schwarzinger
Austria
47°14´N - 11°27´E
Tel./Fax : +43 - 512 - 378868
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.aon.at/sundials
 
----- Original Message -----
To: "ferdv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "sundial" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: Earliest Sundials

> > We have now:
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> > Strassbourg, France            1493  Building                       Cathedral
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> > Krakow, Poland                    1485  Museum
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> > Kaschau, Slowakia,              1477  ??
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> > Utrecht, Netherlands           1463  Building                       Church
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> > Duderstadt                            1456  Building                       Cathedral
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> > Innsbruck, Austria               1451  Museum
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> > Wien, Austria                       1451  Stephansdom              Cathedral
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> Looking at the Karl Schwarzinger's web site I found some discrepancy with the date of the Stephansdome sundial in Wien and the one listed above. Or better it seems to me to understand that maybe (we don't have proof) George Pourbach made a sundial there in 1451 but the sundial now present there it seems to be from the 1554 (but the dial isn't dated).
> Looking in the 'katalog' of the austrian sundials, published in 1993, I read that there is another old sundial of the kind that Micke is looking for, and it is dated 1454 (there is a mistake in the 'katalog' about that date, we read 1494 instead of 1454). The sundial is at Waldhausen im Strudengau, on the parish church.
> Another old sundial in Austria is in Styria at Stubenberg and it is dated 1561 (clearly visible from the photo in the 'katalog' (dated 1521 by Karl Schwarzingher in his web site)
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> Mario Arnaldi
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