Dear Joel, thanks for your message. I hope that some my italian friend transtale this article into english language soon. The object you say in the picture is a little gnomonic instrument about the which our Alessandro Gunella wrote a good article in my magazine "Gnomonica" (see the text of my article). Hope Alessandro can answer to your request better. Thanks Nicola
---------- Initial Header ----------- >From : "robic.joel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : "nicola severino" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] Cc : Date : Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:54:07 +0100 Subject : Re: The mistery of sundials in the Ambassadors of Holbein > Nicolas, > That seems great, but I don't understand italian, I hope someone will > translate your pages > However, the pictures have a very high definition ! > > I have another question : > Does someone know what is the object at the left on the polyhedral dial : a > disk with a vertical pin ? > object that we can find in Nicolas Kratzer portrait (see the photo). > > Joël > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "nicola severino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 7:18 PM > Subject: The mistery of sundials in the Ambassadors of Holbein > > > > Dear Friends, > > > > I have published on my web site > > www.nicolaseverino.it a new article in which I write (sorry italian only) > > abot the solution for the horary quadrant in the picture. The file is a > > weinzip for free download (1428 Kb) with several high definition images. > > Download it and launch the "index" file. > > Thanks for attention > > Nicola Severino > > > > - > > > > > -
