Hi Darek,
Yes, on having a closer look at the horizontal Sundial the gnomon is not
positioned correctly. Maybe the designer/builder didn't want to put the
gnomon on the face of the SUN. It's a pity that such a lovely looking
sundial has an error like that.
Roderick Wall.
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From: Dariusz Oczki
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 7:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Polish sundial saffari
Hi Roderick
I was wondering when someone figures that out :)
Yes you are absolutely right - the stones are not fixed and as you have
suggested someone must have swiched them. It is in Zwolen - a very small
town south of Warsaw. The dial (dated 1973) is located on a central square
which is more like a park. Anyway, that's not the only error in the dials
photographed that day. You take a closser look at the 4th picture in my text
depicting a goldish sundial. The dial plate seems to be OK, but the gnomon
was incorrectly fixed. Im affraid there is still to much ignorance in my
country concerning sundials. But I will change it :)
We don't have to mamy motels in Poland but there are a lot of other places
to stay overnight. We were lucky to get an apartment for a night at the
Kozłówka (Kozlowka) Palace - one of the reachest palaces in my country. For
ages it belonged to the Zamoyski family and now there is a museum there. And
they have a nice sundial in the courtyard (shown on two photos in my
article). If anyone intends to visit Poland I can recommend this place.
Ragards,
Darek
Dnia 7 lipca 2011 22:39 "R Wall" <[email protected]>
napisał(a):
Hi Darek,
The garden sundial at the bottom of the 1st page on your website. Looks as
if someone has moved the hour stones to incorrect hour positions. Some
hour
stones even look to be just sitting there and are not fixed. But the hour
stones all look to be there with none missing. Is this correct?
Do you know how old this sundial is. Your sundial safari sounds like fun,
I
guess you stayed in motels for the three days.
Regards,
Roderick Wall.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dariusz Oczki
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 8:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Polish sundial saffari
Hello all
A few days ago I had a wonderful trip which you might call a sundial
saffari. Together with my girlfriend we marked on our sundial map a group
of
places we have never been before and we took off. In Poland we have some
cases of two or ever three villages of the same name in the same
voivodship
(our local version of you provinces, states or departaments) so you never
know which place you should go to find a sundial mentioned in a historical
monument register. It means finding a specific sundial sometimes requires
a
little of detective skills. But this way there is even more fun - you just
need more time. Anyway, as a result of the three days trip we found 7
dials
in the Lublin area which is south-east of Warsaw.
If you wish to see them then you just follow the link below:
http://gnomonika.pl/news.php?id=53
The saffari description is in Polish but the photographes are
international
:)
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