Does anyone know if there will be an airing of the TV special, "Longitude"
here in the U.S.?
Thanks,Fritz
I photographed 7 years ago. They stand on one of the obelsik mileposts, of
which I think there are few. On the east side it says 'To Moscow 675' and
there is a line below the 675 with 2 under it.
Unfortunately I do not have the site reference, but seem to remember it was
on the main road int
At 09:06 27/06/2000 +1000, John D Hall wrote:
>Hi Tony
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>For many years architects have been trained to use a stereo sunpath diagram
>which is essentially the Oughtred dial reversed. Alas most architects then
>fail to make use of the sun - you can take a horse to wate
There is a nice collection of historical sundials in St. Petersburg's
Lomonosov Museum, which is in the old Kunstkammer. I am helping the
curator, Tatiana Moisseeva, to catalogue it.
Also check out the Hermitage, which has some sundials. I saw them last
fall after hours and don't know if they
Fellow Shadow Watchers.
I offered to send anyone a JPEG of the sunpath
instrument I described yesterday but will send a small JPEG automatically
to everyone signed up for my series on 'Making Metal Sundials' so there's
no need to request individual copies if you are alre
Hi Tony,
About 15 years ago I bought an instrument based on the Oughtred sundial as
John Hall answered to your e-mail. This was built by Friedrich Tonne,
Germany.
The name of that instrument is horizontoscoop.
I have a letter of October 1996 in which is written that the instrument is
still for sa
