If I may ask - why is the dial face (the one facing the viewer) on the polyhedral dial different from the rest with the gnomon set on the 6 hour line? Yet the time is just 1 hour behind the two times shown on the other two dials.
Regards Alex On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:59 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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: > > http://www.googleartproject.com/museums/nationalgallery/the-ambassadors > > 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > >
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