Re: mosaic sundial

[Gianni Ferrari]

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> the mosaic sundial done by italian diallist Valentino.
> It is the first opera of a real mosaic sundial made without industrial contribute of glass tiles............

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There are many examples  of sundials made with the technique of the mosaic .

Among these I remember: 

- the first image of a sundial is on a mosaic.  See  "One of the most ancient representations of a. sundial" in The Compendium Jun 2003 

 

- The Anaximander sundial in  

http://www.zikaden.de/gedruckt/jamben/Anaximander%20erfindet%20die%20Sonnenuhr.html

 

- In the garden of the Elementary School of Correggio (Reggio Emilia-Northern Italy) the schoolboys have built an analemmatic sundial (300 x 105 cm)  with ceramics mosaic and bits of marble.  

 

- I remember  to have photographed a little mosaic sundial near the church of the town of Rovinj (Croatia) 

 

- In the book “Le ore e le ombre” by Gian Carlo Rigassio at pag. 25 there is  the photo of a mosaic sundial in Geneva (Switzerland) 

 

- See also in

http://www.alrakis.net/pagine/meridiana6.htm                              wooden mosaic

http://www.alrakis.net/pagine/meridiana7.htm                              small cubes of  porphyry

http://www.thejoyofshards.co.uk/mosaiques/blue2.shtml

http://www.sundials.co.uk/~israel.htm

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/blateyron/sundials/shadowspro/gb/users.htm

 

There are also laboratories of mosaic that built and sell  mosaic sundials. See: 

www.mosart.it/ parietali.htm

http://www.made-in-mosaic.fr/PBPhotos.asp?PBMInit=1

http://www.deutsches-museum-shop.com/kreativitaet/astronomie/4260013489858

http://www.mosaik-laden.de/oxid.php/sid/x/shp/oxbaseshop/cl/alist/cnid/fc24185e4816568f1.47286849

 

Best

Gianni Ferrari