Here's what the World looks now. Brad
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Gianni Ferrari <[email protected]> wrote: > Frank, > > Congratulation !!! > > > > You wrote: > > *The great thing about using sunrise and sunset as reference times is that > governments can't change these times by legislation.* > > and > > *It is a shame it is cloudy now. * > > > > In Italy there is the saying “Piove, governo ladro!” that means "It > rains, government thief!" > > Perhaps your government does not agree with your attempt to disobey the > laws > J > > > > Happy Equinox > > Gianni Ferrari > > > > > > > 2010/3/20 Frank King <[email protected]> > > Dear All, >> Happy Equinox >> >> As well as grumbling about Daylight Saving Time >> I do frivolous things like designing sundials... >> >> I decided it was time that rather more of the >> world knew about Babylonian Hours and Italian >> Hours so, yesterday, I (and many others) put >> up my latest creation on a south-facing wall of >> Selwyn College, here in Cambridge (a place that >> does its best to educate people!). >> >> You can see some of the action at: >> >> >> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fhk1/SelwynPic.jpg<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Efhk1/SelwynPic.jpg> >> >> This photograph was taken at... >> >> Hey, you can all work that out for yourselves :-) >> >> It is fun how the scaffolding echoes the noon >> crossing point on the equinoctial line :-) >> >> It was the day before the equinox and you can >> see that the shadow isn't quite centred on the >> equinoctial line. >> >> I still find it magical that you can fiddle >> with all these sines and cosines and the end >> result actually works! >> >> The great thing about using sunrise and sunset >> as reference times is that governments can't >> change these times by legislation. >> >> Hmmm. Maybe they can? >> >> For more pictures and a non-technical account >> written for the College in the early hours of >> this morning you can look at: >> >> >> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fhk1/Selwyn.pdf<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Efhk1/Selwyn.pdf> >> >> It is a shame it is cloudy now. The U.K. is >> not a good place for sun :-( >> >> Frank King >> Cambridge, U.K. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> >> > > > -- > Mail to : [email protected] > Lat. 44;38,18.5N > Long. 10;56,05.3E > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > >
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