Re: A dial by any other name

1999-06-20 Thread Peter Mayer
Dear Shadow Watchers, On Friday the 18th, Fernando replied: >Thibaud Taudin-Chabot wrote: > >> I came also across the word 'semáforo solar'. Is that an incorrect use? > >Is this a joke? I can't see any meaning in it. Do you brothers from >Portugal see any meaning here? > >I could imagine an inst

Re: A.Molteni italian gnomonist of XIX centuri

1999-06-20 Thread R.H. van Gent
giovanni bellina wrote: > Today I have bought July 99 issue of Sky & Telescope. On page 87 there > is a photo of sundial made by “… italian inventor A. > Molteni in 1865.” > I am italian and gnomonist but I dont know A. Molteni – 1865. > There is anibody that know it and can tell me his story?

Happy Solstice

1999-06-20 Thread Sol Invictus
To all my admirers, happy summer solstice, 19:49 UT, 21 June. For those in the northern hemisphere, this is as good as it gets, the longest day, the shortest night of the year. I hope you enjoy this mid-summer night with an appropriate pagan celebration. I am ;-) Although this is the short