thread about sundials on bridges on this list.
I copy here a follow-up info given a few months later about the bridge
by Calatrava which was at the start of the 2003 thread:
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Sundial list (4/7/2004):
A 217-foot bridge pylon forms the gnomon of a sundial. The Sundial
Bridge, by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, across Sacramento River
at Redding, California, opens today. I think that the dial face is
marked on a plaza at the end of the bridge.
http://www.turtlebay.org/sundial/sundial.shtml
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So, not a sundial on a bridge, but a sundial-bridge and conversely...
Now, for an ancient sundial on a bridge, I can at least point you to the
"Ponte Vecchio" in Firenze, Italy, where there is a sundial in the form
of a scaphe (half-spherical surface), if I my memory serves: I would
guess that it dates 17th or 18th c.
Cheers,
Thierry
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Thierry van Steenberghe
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Frank Evans wrote:
Greetings fellow dialists,
Dials on bridges seem not all that common and indeed I have a
statement before me that says that there are only three such dials in
the British Isles. This is a slight underestimate. I am aware of
bridge dials at Ross on Wye, Hereford, at Sinnington in North
Yorkshire, at Corbridge and at Berwick on Tweed, both Northumberland,
and at Llanrwst, Gwynnedd, North Wales. The Corbridge dial appears
never to have been completed while the dials at Sinnington, Berwick
and Lllanrwst are all twentieth century. The Ross dial, unlike the
others, is a vertical and is in fact a cube; I do not have a date for it.
A bridge seems an ideal place for a dial with lots of passers by and
unlikely to be overshadowed. Why, then, only recent bridge dials? Have
we knowledge of earlier bridge dials? In other countries?
By the way, the Berwick dial, which I am currently investigating, is a
1995 replacement for one lost in 1953 when a fisherman is said to have
moored his fishing net to it.
Frank 55N 1W.
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Thierry van Steenberghe
Bruxelles / Belgium
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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