Off topic to Robert Shapiro's question - but I came across the following in
"Verse and Worse"
TWO INSCRIPTIONS FROM OLD SUNDIALS
Life's but a shade: man is but dust;
The dyall sayes that dyall we must.
Time wastes our bodies and our wits;
But we waste Time, so we are quits.
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"Sonderegger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think in the northern hemisphere summer is always in July, because the
> beginning of spring is here always when then sun crosses declination of 0
> degree from south to north (= crossing the ecliptic). The places of the
> stars on then sky will chang
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Subject: Change of EoT
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> To anyone who might know:
>
> Living in Tucson, Arizona, which has more minutes of sunshine
> annually than any other spot in America, I became an amateur diallist a
> few years ago. I
> thought I'd put a question to you for your expert consideration.
> Fo
Helmut,
Regarding the occurrence of The Seasons, I think I was mentioning a
position variation relative to a fixed frame defined in a given epoch and due to
Precession e.g., with the Equinoxes shifting West and the Longitude of
Perihelion shifting East the Summer Solstice and Perihelion w
Arthur,
You are right regarding the relative small changes in the values of
Obliquity and Eccentricity over the period of a precession cycle. However, it
is the phase relationship of the two effects and not their values that play the
dominant role in the variation of the Equation of Time
Tex Brashear wrote:
> ... What if, at the junction of the noon line and six-o-clock lines,
> we make a small hole...and then drive a tiny rod into that hole so that
> the dial plate pivots around that point on a base to which is attached?
> The point itself however, remains in the same position
Out of 3477 dials on the BSS register there are 586 recorded as having a
motto. 211 of these have no recorded date but if the distribution between
dates on non-dated dials is the same as that on dated dials (that may not be
right...) the results would be:
Dials with mottos in the various centuri
To anyone who might know:
Living in Tucson, Arizona, which has more minutes of sunshine
annually than any other spot in America, I became an amateur diallist a
few years ago. I
thought I'd put a question to you for your expert consideration.
For some time I've wanted to build a horizon
Arthur Carlson wrote:
> The precession is a physical process, which
> does not depend on our calendars. What it does is change the
> constellations that are visible at night in July. Since we don't use
> the stars for sundials, it won't make any difference.
Arthur,
I beg to differ. For those
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