Re: Alt Augsburg revisited

[rmallett]

On 26/04/2013 17:07, Schechner, Sara wrote: These astronomical clocks are part of a tradition of elaborate and complex clocks that showed all sorts of astronomical information.  They are largely found in courtly collections put together in the 16th and 17th centuries.  The inclusion of sundials on them was common in order to set the time of the clock.   A fine collection of clocks by Jost Burgi and others is found in Kassel: http://www.museum-kassel.de/index_navi.php?parent=1412 http://www.museum-kassel.de/sic2011/?parent=5108   And in Dresden: Mathematisch Physikalischer Salon http://www.skd.museum/de/museum-erleben/skd-mediathek/skd-videos/tuermchenuhr-mit-automatenwerk/index.html http://www.skd.museum/de/museen-institutionen/zwinger-mit-semperbau/mathematisch-physikalischer-salon/die-neue-dauerausstellung/index.html   (not much is online but there are some great books) Sara     Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D. David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617-496-9542   |   Fax: 617-496-5932   |   sche...@fas.harvard.edu http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi.html Both cities were very heavily bombed during the war, so we are very lucky that these have survived. -- -- Richard Mallett Eaton Bray, Dunstable South Beds. UK

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