Dear Sara,Yes, the history of this part of Europe is most complex, yet You have described it most precisely !Dobromil is currently several km from the Polish borders.Your enquiry triggered me to make some searches and I have found information that after II WW, during the process of establishing modern eastern borders of Poland, Soviets offered Poland to buy some 150sq km including the town of Dobromil for 150 kg of pure gold,but the transaction didn't came into force !According to the descriptions, the town is said to have preserved its historic climate of Habsburg Empire.The signature on the dial is in Polish and thus it may support that it is from pre -1772, that is first partition of Poland.Though, the germanisation process in the Habsburg Empire was slow and there are known instruments with Polish languagesignatures from the Habsburg period as well, so this is not decisive. In my view this is rather the form of the sundial that points it to be mid 18th century.I hope this was helpful.Regards,Maciej LoseOd: "Schechner, Sara" <[email protected]>Do: "Darek Oczki" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; Wysłane: 21:01 Niedziela 2020-09-27Temat: RE: sundial Digest, Vol 177, Issue 15 / Polish sundial maker G. I. Turasiewicz w Dobromilu Dear Darek and Maciej, Thank you for your quick replies. I know that Dobromil is presently in Ukraine and not Poland, but the town has been associated with a number of different nations. Before 1772, I believe it was part of Poland; after 1772, it was in the Galicia region of the Hapsburg Empire and associated with Austria. In World War I, Dobromil returned to Poland. In World War II, it was invaded by the Germans, and ended up in the Soviet Union. It seemed to me that the sundial was signed in the Polish language. Is that correct?
I will have a look at the catalogue of the collection of Przypkowski Museum in Jędrzejów. Thank you for the reference. Best wishes, Sara From: sundial <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Darek OczkiSent: Sunday, September 27, 2020 8:29 AMTo: [email protected]: Odp: sundial Digest, Vol 177, Issue 15 Hi Sara. Thank you for bringing this out. To be honest I have new encountered his name in any literature or article about dialing in Poland. It seems this name was never mentioned. I will do some research and try to find something. What is for sure is that Dobromil is a city in present Ukraine. Best Darek Oczki Dnia 27 września 2020 12:00 napisał(a): Send sundial mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of sundial digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Polish sundial maker G. I. Turasiewicz w Dobromilu (Schechner, Sara) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:54:47 +0000 From: "Schechner, Sara" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Polish sundial maker G. I. Turasiewicz w Dobromilu Message-ID: <bl0pr07mb4019da20745c9220ed4f6213f8...@bl0pr07mb4019.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Friends, especially those in Poland. Harvard has an Augsburg-type sundial signed "G. I. Turasiewicz w Dobromilu." I would like to know more about this maker. If you know his full name, dates, and so forth, I would appreciate hearing from you. Best wishes, Sara Sara J. Schechner, PhD, FAAS David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Lecturer on the History of Science Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617-496-9542 | Fax: 617-495-3344 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | @SaraSchechner http://scholar.harvard.edu/saraschechner http://chsi.harvard.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/private/sundial/attachments/20200926/e982b167/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ sundial mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial ------------------------------ End of sundial Digest, Vol 177, Issue 15 ****************************************
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