And beware "Books on Demand" Many don't show the images and figures either. Fred Jaggi On Feb 29, 2016, at 10:33 AM, Putowsky via sundial <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From: Putowsky <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Horary machine > Date: February 29, 2016 at 10:32:54 AM EST > To: [email protected] > Cc: Dan-George Uza <[email protected]>, Sundial List > <[email protected]> > > > Hello Fred. > Thank you very much for your very accurate answer. > It is a shame that the guys from Google Books doesn't know how to digitize > books. > They mutilate allways the most important pages for a gnomonist, the images. > It only cost a little bit more of time to digitize also the prints!. > At least the books digitized by Microsoft have text and also the prints. > The guys from Google didn't realized that a book digitized in the way they do > is worth almost for nothing? > May be somebody can tell them to do a well done digitized copy? > Stanislav Putowsky. > [email protected] > > On 27 feb 2016, at 19:48, Fred Sawyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is a print from Pluche's Spectacle de la Nature. For an English >> translation of this book, see >> >> https://books.google.com/books?id=FOI4AAAAMAAJ&dq=horary+machine&source=gbs_navlinks_s >> >> The machine is described on p. 212 and following. >> >> Fred Sawyer >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Dan-George Uza <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Hello! >> >> An old print depicting a "horary machine" is being sold on E-bay. Can you >> please tell me what it is and how it works? >> >> <horary machine.jpg> >> >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/1766-PLUCHE-Horary-Machine-Ring-Dial-Sundial-Antique-Engraving-/291691633308?hash=item43ea2d1a9c:g:9nUAAOxyrrpTgZSe >> >> Thanks! >> >> Dan >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > Frederick Jaggi Horas Non Numero Nisi Serenas
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