My new website

1999-02-22 Thread Phil Pappas
Hello all dialists! My new website, "Sundial Sculptures by John L. Carmichael Jr.", is finally completed and ready for your critical inspection. I did not realize how difficult it would be to do this, which explains why it took so long. I think, though, that it will constantly change as my sund

Re: Sun Compass

1999-02-22 Thread PsykoKidd
In regards to FranGois Pineau's message about his friend's sundial. I personally don't know any specifics about that, but the planetarium in Lansing, Michigan (on the MSU campus) is called the Abrams Planetarium after Talbert and Leota Abrams. Hopefully this will provide you with a clue to histo

Re: Off topic: Eclipses

1999-02-22 Thread Slawomir K. Grzechnik
At 12:41 AM 2/20/99 -0500, you wrote: >Does anyone out there in sundial land have a source that gives the >circumstances of lunar eclipses in 1582? I am trying to help a young man >with a project related to efforts to determine the longitude of Mexico City >in that time period. We need an eclips

Sun Compass

1999-02-22 Thread Bob Terwilliger
Dear Friends. I have received a request for information about an interesting device. == Quoted Message == I am interested by sundials. With a friend we search for information about a type of sundial used by US ARMY in north Africa during the world war two. My friend possess one exemplary (see t

Mallorca Gnom�nic Meeting

1999-02-22 Thread Conxita Bou
Dear all! This is just to remind you that the interesting MALLORCA GNOMONIC MEETING will be held in Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca Island, Spain, from the 23rd to the 25th of April 1999, as it was announced some time ago in our EVENTS web page: http://www.troc.es/scg/events/index.cfm The Sundial