Claude Hartman wrote: > > I will be visiting my son in Koln the first two weeks in July. We are > planning trips to Amsterdam and Paris. > Are there some good sundial sites I could visit?
Claude, Sundials in Amsterdam: Visit the Rijksmuseum. There is a beautitful horizontal dial of David Coster, a dial with curves for the equation of time. One of the first dials in the world with such curves. In the museum also an armillosphere with extra scales at the outside of the equatorial ring. In the garden also is a dial in the front of an old gardenhouse. >From this garden two dials are visble at the museum. One is an older man, the other a younger man, both with a dial. The Nieuwe Kerk. (the New Church) In top of the front a large round sundial of marble. Furtheron at this church is a triple stone dial with south, east and west dial. In the garden of museum Huize van Loon, Keizersgracht 672, a stone dial with several dialplates. Dated 1578. Very nice. >From this garden a dial is to see at the backside of the house Keizersgracht 670. A modern dial (1974) is found at Lauriersgracht 118. For Paris buy the book Cadran Solaires de Paris by Andree Gotteland and Georges Camus. ISBN 2-271-05035-9 Nice trip. Fer de Vries.
