Interior Architectural Sundails

1999-08-02 Thread Abbie Lewis
My message is for anyone who has heard of, or knows about, an interior sundial that is built or painted into a ceiling (dome) of a building (perhaps somewhere in Europe) where the sun shines down through a window(s), possibly onto a pendant, where a shadow lands on the correct time element. Any

cusp dates

1999-08-02 Thread John Carmichael
Hello all: My new dial design will have the customary seven declination lines indicating the cusp of each month (the ascent and descent of the sun between the solstices). Rohr (pg. 84) lists these dates as the 21st of each month, however, depending on the year, this date can fall between the

Re: 16th century navigation/surveying

1999-08-02 Thread John Shepherd
A quick answer to Arthur Carlson question, Ranger George seemed to think that the expectations that the Earth was smaller greatly inhibited the discovery of the actual size. The ancient Greeks had believed in a rather small value, and who could question their authority? It was also an important

My WEB site

1999-08-02 Thread Mario Arnaldi
Dear friends, finally, at last, I have my own web site. It still in construction but at the moment I think it is enough for me. Unfortunately at the moment there is no English version, only Italian, but in the future By the way there are many images that speak ours language. I hope you'll