Hi there, As others have said, this is fun but surely in this last one the cock and the owl are meant as furniture to indicate morning and night. I don't think there is any substantive connection.
Tom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fabio Savian Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 3:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Owls and sundials I have other two curiosities: In Damme, near Brugge, Belgium, there is the museum of Till Eulenspiegel. Beside the museum there is a sundial (www.sundialatlas.eu/atlas.php?so=BE3) Yesterday I watched a sundial on the Atlas with a cock and an owl, it is near Biella, Italy: www.sundialatlas.eu/atlas.php?so=IT2538 ciao Fabio Fabio Savian [email protected] Paderno Dugnano, Milan, Italy 45° 34' 10'' N 9° 10' 9'' E GMT +1 (DST +2) --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
