Gianni, It is good to know that Sarah Simons rejects in her thesis the vision of Brochardt concerning the sundials of ancient Egypt, based of four arguments. Sarah Simons is and egyptologist and astronomer. On my website I wrote about this a page (exceptionalli in english!) with own calculations.
See http://www.wijzerweb.be/egypteengels.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 Op 27-apr-2013, om 17:25 heeft Gianni Ferrari het volgende geschreven: > > With the help of Mario Arnaldi and Reinhold Kriegler I collected three > important papers on the sundials of ancient Egypt. > They are: > > Die geschichte der Altägyptisch Zeitmessung und der uhren > (The history of the ancient Egyptian time measurement and watches) > by Ludwig Borchardt, 1920 - p.122- German- 30MB > > Ancient Egyptian Astronomy - Timekeeping and cosmography in the new kingdom > by Sarah Simons, 1999 - p.230- English - 24MB > > Herbert Rau - Berlin instruments (sundials) of the old Egyptian (Translation > of the German text into English by Reinhold Kriegler ) , 2002- p.7 -0.8MB > > Those interested can download the documents from : > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6616660/Borchardt%20Ludwig%20Alt%C3%A4gyptische%20Zeitmessung%20p_1_122.pdf > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6616660/Ancient%20Egyptian%20Astronomy_Sarah%20Simons.pdf > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6616660/Herbert%20Rau_Egyptian%20sundials.pdf > > Gianni Ferrari > > P.S. Does anyone know other books or writings on this subject? > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >
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