Re: Time Museum auction

2002-10-12 Thread Sara Schechner
By the way, an article in The Sunday Times (Oct 6th) suggested that the museum might have been set up with the intention of providing a provenance to these objects with a view to just such a sale. I note that Sotheby's catalog seems to rely heavily on the museum as the root of provenances. Any c

Re: Interesting new site

2002-10-12 Thread Gianni Ferrari
I have made some tests with the program "sunangle" of the Sustainable By Design http://www.susdesign.com/sunangle/index.html (see Bob Terwilliger last message) and I write here some observations. 1 - the program seems to me well done and very easy and the results are correct 2 - the h

Re: Time Museum auction

2002-10-12 Thread clusbytaylor
Fred Sawyer wrote: > List members may be interested to learn that several of the sundials in > the collection of the now defunct Time Museum (Rockford, IL) will be > auctioned off at the end of this month. To view photos of the items go > to: > > http://search.sothebys.com/search/collArea/Bro

Interesting new site

2002-10-12 Thread Robert Terwilliger
Dialists, A link to an interesting new site turned up way down on the NASS Message Board. The site offers a number of solar calculations. I wonder what the group thinks of it as an asset for dialists. Sustainable By Design http://www.susdesign.com/design-tools.html Regards, Bob Terwilliger -