> Is the Roman Pantheon a colossal sundial? A similar idea was already published in 2001 by Peter Mueller (Cologne, Germany, a specialist for the architecture of historical observatories), in his nicely illustrated and well-written book Die Kuppeln von Rom. Meisterwerke der Baukunst aus zwei Jahrtausenden. Koeln, Weimar, Wien: Boehlau Verlag, 2001. 235 pp., 31 x 22 cm, ISBN 3-412-04001-0 (see pages 28-31, and see also my review of this book in Beitraege zur Astronomiegeschichte Bd. 6, 2003, p. 227). Mueller suggested that the Pantheon may have served as a calendar.
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