Happy Winter Festivities

2001-12-23 Thread Edley McKnight
Dear Gnomonophiles, Happy and festive celebrations to you all. I can't even Imagine all the cultures many ways and reasons for celebrating these fine Solstice events, but, I hope they are happy for us all. It is proving to be quite enjoyable, being a member of this list. Thanks for letting

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2001-12-23 Thread fer j. de vries
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Fer. Fer J. de Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iae.nl/users/ferdv/ Eindhoven, Netherlands lat. 51:30 N long. 5:30 E Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Kerstmis-Kaarsje.gif (GIFf/JVWR) (00038BE5)

sciatherican rule

2001-12-23 Thread RKriegler
a friend of mine has read the latin book of   P. Caspar Schott   He is looking for a good explanation of the sciatherican rule - in German language please! Any help or further literature concerning this rule would be very welcome! Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Regards Reinhold * ** **

Re:Re: Accuracy again

2001-12-23 Thread Dave Bell
OK, that I can see - if you first project a (real) image of the Sun, then reflect a spot from that, you would be creating a very high magnification solar telescope, at the projection plane. Difficult to see a way to make this in any way a continuous motion, but it's definately a start! (I like