Fwd: AW: Google's Art Project and dialling... and De Zonnewijzerkring February 2011

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:40:14 -0800

Perhaps a bit off topic, but I notice the previous article of the month from the Dutch Sundial Society was Gunter's quadrant.  For anyone interested, you can download the chapter on Gunter's quadrant from my astrolabe book at:
 
http://astrolabes.org/pages/theastrolabe.htm
 
It has the details of how to use and make Gunter's quadrant.  There is also a link to an  interactive Java Gunter's quadrant.
 
Thanks for pointing us the Google Holbein painting.  The detail is amazing.
 
Best regards,
 
Jim
 

James E. Morrison
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Astrolabe web site at http://astrolabes.org

Feb 4, 2011 05:37:37 AM, [email protected] wrote:

Dear sundial friends,

 

may I draw your attention to the article of the month February of the Dutch Sundial Society?



http://www.de-zonnewijzerkring.nl/eng/index-maand-art.htm

Article of the month February

Horarium Bilimbatum

(Double-scaled quadrant)

by Fer J de Vries!

Sincerely

Reinhold Kriegler

 

 

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Reinhold R. Kriegler

Lat. 53° 6' 52,6" Nord; Long. 8° 53' 52,3 Ost; 48 m ü. N.N.  GMT +1 (DST +2)   www.ta-dip.de

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=XyCoJHwzzjU&fmt=18

http://www.ta-dip.de/dies-und-das/r-e-i-n-h-o-l-d.html

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Betreff: Re: Google's Art Project and dialling

 

Dear Patrick,

 

Thank you for drawing our attention to Google's Art Project and The Ambassadors.

 

My guess about the object behind the shepherd's dial is that it is one foot of the support for the celestial sphere.

 

Have you seen a delightful paperback, The Ambassadors' Secret, about this painting?  It's by John North, Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy and the Exact Sciences at the University of Groningen, Holland.  Published by Phoenix; my copy is dated 2004.  Published at £8.99, but remaindered at Waterstone's a few months ago at £3.99.

John Lynes

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Sent: Fri, 4 February, 2011 7:59:26
Subject: Google's Art Project and dialling


After only recently learning of the Google Art Project, I looked at Holbein's Ambassadors today and like many others I was amazed at the resolution. This huge painting, it's not far off 7ft square, is here in London at the National Gallery and it is now available to view under Google's Art Project at:

 

 

Painted in 1533 it has the most interesting collection of contemporary dialling equipment all of which are painted in immense detail.  There are two globes (one terrestrial and one celestial), a quadrant, a torquetum, a polyhedral dial and a shepherd's dial and some others I don't know, all of which are set in such a way as to tell some 'story' to the understanding viewer.

 

Until now it has been almost impossible for a sundial-interested visitor to the gallery to attempt to understand much of the detail - there just isn't time - but now with this view you can. You can even see for yourself the four place names marked on the terrestrial globe (one of which helped to identify one of the depicted persons as Jean de Dinteville, the Seigneur of Polisy) and you can even read the music and words in the open book and guess at the date and time shown on the shepherd's dial..

 

It doesn't (I think) help with viewing the anamorphic skull as a skull - or at least you still have to turn your monitor round to do so! - and I STILL don't understand the object behind the shepherd's dial...  Anybody know what that might be?

 

Patrick

 

 


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