Re: Birthday-once more

2004-02-23 Thread Gianni Ferrari
  Hi Andrew, the few lines in "approximate" Polish were written by me to Reinhold as a joke , in reply of his message for the Copernicus birthday. Unfortunately the trasmission via Email has corrupted the Polish letters.  In my intentions  the message said: "For my friend Reinhold,  Many t

Re: the oldest horizontal&vertical dial

2004-02-23 Thread Frans W. Maes
Hi Marcin & all, > I'm looking for any information about the first use (or the first records) > of horizontal and vertical sundial ? Where it was, when etc. > I read about sundial history and I found quite a lot information about > the oldest, most simple dials (gnomons, obelisks etc) but I can'