Or perhaps someone should cut the Roman numerals ring and add a mechanism to rock this ring back and forth according to the equation of time :-) -- Jan
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 05:20, <[email protected]> wrote: > Surely there must be someone from Prague on this excellent sundial mail > list who might be able to make representations to those responsible for the > clock? > It would be nice to see it working as it should do... > Failing that can someone tell us to whom we should all write? > > Patrick > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Willy Leenders <[email protected]> > To: Sundial sundiallist <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, Feb 26, 2011 3:42 pm > Subject: A blunder on the astronomical clock in Prague > > There is an interesting difference in the construction of a sundial and > an astronomical clock. > On a sundial, you can change the solar time indication to a time zone > indication. > This is not my preference. But you can do it. > If the sundial also has lines for unequal hours or Italian or Babylonian hour > lines, they should not be changed. > > That is different on an astronomical clock. > This produced an annoying blunder on the famous astronomical clock in > Prague. > To please the tourists who assemble there, the clock indicates now Central > European Time rather than solar time as it once was, > The indication of unequal hours and Bohemian (Italian) hours now gains > about a quarter in February and loses a quarter in the period of end > October and begin November. > On this once so accurately crafted clock ! > > The tourists don't worry about it. > Most of them are only interested in the puppet show of the apostles in the > hourly opened shutters. > > See more on the Prague clock on my website at > http://www.wijzerweb.be/prague.html > > Willy Leenders > Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium) > > Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg (Flanders) > with a section 'worth knowing about sundials' (mostly in Dutch): > http://www.wijzerweb.be > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > >
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