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Dear Bob, The image look at mechanical clok with simple astrolabic functions.
The latin sentence at right would be from cistercense St. Bernard:
"Bonum est nos hic esse, quia homo vivit purius, cadit rarius, surgit velocius,
incedit cautius, quiescit securius, moritur felicius, purgatur citius,
praemiatur copiosius."--Bernard. "This sentence," says Dr. Whitaker, "is
usually inscribed in some conspicuous part of the Cistertian houses."
I not know the latin sentence at left. Nicola
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Da: Robert Terwilliger <[email protected]>
Data: 26/04/2016 15.14
A: "Patrick Powers"<[email protected]>, "Sundial mail list
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Ogg: Sundial at Snowshill Manor (was unreadable dial)
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I did a Google search on "Sundial at Snowshill
Manor" then "Images" and got this page:
Link
Which includes, along with images of the unreadable dial
mentioned by Patrick, this image:
Link (Click
for full size)
It appears to be an astrolabe. Would any reader care to
comment. Or perhaps translate?
Bob
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Behalf Of Patrick Powers
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 6:51
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Subject: Re unreadable dials
Hi Nicola
Your comment regarding
the placement of armillary dials too high to be read is very interesting.
I am sure that you are correct.
This practice
continues (nearly) to the present day. We have a few ‘dials’
like that in Britain and it does indeed seem sometimes to have been the
practice to add focus to a garden by placing what is effectively a
‘false’ dial on a very tall column.
A particular one that
I recall dates (I think) from the 1920s and is one which I managed to
photograph close up some time ago. It is at Snowshill Manor in Gloucestershire
(UK) where it is complete as a dial, even to the inclusion of a nodus. It
does not however have a time scale.
That dial is mounted
on a 4m high octagonal column and as a consequence it is remarkably difficult
to photograph against the sky let alone view any of its detail from the ground.
Thank you for
providing the historical background to this interesting practice.
Patrick
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