On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Fascinating. Weird and wonderful!
> 2. A whole array of very large sundials spread across the city of Bristol had
> vertical gnomons and all hour lines at 15 deg.! Never built - perhaps it was
> as well.
This makes my head hurt, just trying to v
Mike - thanks for your info on the Mancunian dials. Looks like life will
be
interesting for the designers if they havn't done their homework!
-
Fascinating. Weird and wonderful! I hope that the architects/designers have
got some good gnomonic science/sense behind their designs. I have three
experiences of designers/architects and sundials.
1. The large vertical dial (2 m square) on top of a one-storey building
needed to be observed thr
what page?
- Original Message -
From: "The Shaws" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: Sundials in Manchester of all places
> I've just got back from the Exhibition of the proposed sundials in
> Manchester at the Urbis museum.
> I was hoping to tak
I've just got back from the Exhibition of the proposed sundials in
Manchester at the Urbis museum.
I was hoping to take photos of models of the proposals, but so far the
sundials are only drawings with written explanations - so that makes it
difficult to have anything to show.
A few ideas that we
Ian Maddocks wrote, in his interesting description of the Manchester
exhibition, that the proposed Cornbrook device was a sundial based on an
'entropy surface'. One non-mathematical definition of entropy is 'a measure
of disorder'. It would appear that the originator has chosen a most apt
statemen
Hi Mike
-Original Message-
Manchester wants to wash away its image as a rainy city - by creating a
network of giant sundials. The dials would stretch through the city
centre linking Salford Quays and the City of Manchester stadium. An
exhibition of the sundials plans is due to open on Sat
Hello all,
on 26 September 2001 I sent a message to this list with the results of a
little search on the definition of the Equation of Time.
I've searched for EoT on 30 books or documents dealing with Sundials and
Astronomy and I've reached the conclusion that there is a great confusion
on thi
