Dear sundials subscribers,
I have been studing sundials, oriented buildings and similar since I was very young and now an humanistic student has asked my help in a very interesting research about the linkage of gnomons (meridian lines, noon markers ecc.) and zoodiacal representations during the Middle Age. Here in Florence we have a very fine example in the church of S. Giovanni Battista, something about in a recent article: http://www.arcetri.astro.it/CDAs/Laregionetoscana/righini_storia.testo you can read directly, but I don't know anything else. Can You help us? Thanks in advance and listen something from you as soon as possible. Piero Ranfagni & Alfredo Rosito (the student) -- Piero Ranfagni Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri Largo E. Fermi 5 50125 Firenze, Italia Tel. +39 55 2752 308 Fax +39 55 2752 292
