O Frank! This message is superb! I urgently hope you can publish it also in some British newspapers as this Mailing list, distributed from Köln, is read by a tiny group of persons (How many worldwide?) and only some few readers come from France How about providing such a sundial photo gallery somewhere to be looked at virtually ? With best wishes and many thanks for this great idea!
* ** *** **** ***** ****** ******* Reinhold R. Kriegler Lat. 53° 6' 52,6" Nord; Long. 8° 53' 52,3 Ost; 48 m ü. N.N. GMT +1 (DST +2) www.ta-dip.de http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=XyCoJHwzzjU&fmt=18 http://www.ta-dip.de/dies-und-das/r-e-i-n-h-o-l-d.html http://www.ta-dip.de/salon-der-astronomen/musik-im-salon-der-astronomen. html -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: sundial [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Frank King Gesendet: Samstag, 5. Juli 2014 19:16 An: [email protected] Betreff: Tour de Sundials Dear All, In less than 48 hours, Stage 3 of the Tour de France will start about 500m from where I am sitting now. The noise is deafening already! I pondered how many Cambridge sundials the competitors might be able to see in the first mile or so... 1. With agile necks they might see into the gate of Downing College where there is a modern horizontal dial. 2. The next prospect is Christ's College where there is a good wall dial visible through the great gate. 3. They then pass Sidney Sussex College where there is a splendid armillary sphere but, alas, just on the other side of a high wall. 4. They should be able to glance right and see two or three of the six dials on the Gate of Honour at Caius College. 5. They go past King's College but they won't see either of the dials there and they get close to Queens' College but won't see the famous dial there. 6. They should see the recently restored double dial on S. Botolph's Church which veritably gleams when the sun shines on the gold leaf. 7. They then pass Pembroke College but won't see "my" dial there alas. I wasn't consulted about the tour route! The best bet for a photograph of the peloton racing past a sundial is S. Botolph's but, sadly, I shall not be there. I am ringing church bells at that instant to mark the event. Maybe one of the French readers of this list can find a sundial on the race route which permits a photograph of both peloton and dial! There must be some good candidate dials in some of the French villages. Frank King Cambridge, U.K. --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
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