Re: Painting Dials

2003-10-14 Thread Angelo Brazzi
Dear Claude This is technique I use on plastered wall. To prepare the wall I just treat it first with sandpaper. In the case of a nonpainted new wall just to remove the loose particles of sand. In the case of a wall which has been already painted this treatment removes most of the previous pai

Book order

2003-10-14 Thread Gianni Ferrari
  Hello Fred Since I desire to order a copy of the book" The Analemmatic Sundial Sourcebook" I ask you to put me in list and to write me in what bank and in what bank account I have to do the credit transfer. Obviously I  need also the name of the holder of the account.    Immediately

Re: Great clock value

2003-10-14 Thread DMBsundial

a mistake !

2003-10-14 Thread Gianni Ferrari
 I apologize with all for my mitake and particularly with Fred Sawyer  : I have sent a private message, addressed obviously only to him, to the whole list.  Gianni Ferrari 44° 39' N  10° 55' EMailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Sundial books?

2003-10-14 Thread Gianni Ferrari
Hello Claude! Since I am a lover of books, I have tried to gather, or at least to know, all the books on Sundials that are available currently in Italian (my language), in English, in French and in Spanish. Among them those that deal the study of the sundials not using mathematics as seconda

Test please ignore

2003-10-14 Thread tony moss
Test please ignore. I seem to be missing out on a number of submissions to the SML. I see replies but not some of the original messages Tony Moss -

Re: Re: New Sundial books?

2003-10-14 Thread ap
There is also a book by Peter I. Drinkwater, the title should be something like 'The art of sundial construction' (?). Regards Alexei Pace Malta --- > >Hello Claude! > >Since I am a lover of books, I have tried to gather, or at least to k

Re: Re: New Sundial books?

2003-10-14 Thread Gianni Ferrari
Hello Alexei ! The little book by Peter I. Drinkwater ( about 82 pages) is not a "mathematical" book on Sundials. The aspect of the book and the geometric constructions (some very complicated) are in fact the most important part of the book. Only in the Appendix (5 pages) we find some simple f

Re: New Sundial books?

2003-10-14 Thread Sundials
Claude, A very useful book is "PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY: A User-friendly Handbook for Skywatchers", by H. Robert Mills and published by Albion Publishing of Chichester, Sussex, England. ISBN 1-898563-02-0 (hardback) or 1-898563-00-4 (paperback). Reprinted 2000. Don't be put off by the title. It is w

Re: Test again - please ignore.

2003-10-14 Thread RKriegler
Thema: Test again - please ignore. Datum: 14.10.2003 23:01:24 Westeuropäische Normalzeit Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beantworten: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de An: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Internet-eMail: Still not receiving some messages - general as well as SML. Tony M. - Hello Tony, last we

Please excuse!!

2003-10-14 Thread RKriegler
(I did not vote for the NEW system!) Reinhold Kriegler Thema: Re: Test again - please ignore. Datum: 14.10.2003 An: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de In einer eMail vom 14.10.2003 23:01:24 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thema: Test again - please ignore. Datum:

Re: New Sundial books?

2003-10-14 Thread Richard Mallett
>> A very useful book is "PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY: A User-friendly Handbook for Skywatchers", by H. Robert Mills and published by Albion Publishing of Chichester, Sussex, England. ISBN 1-898563-02-0 (hardback) or 1-898563-00-4 (paperback). Reprinted 2000. << He was a wonderful old man who walked with

Re: New Sundial books?

2003-10-14 Thread Alexei Pace
I have an autographed copy of the 1994 edition.. Ap At 23:21 14/10/03, you wrote: >> A very useful book is "PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY: A User-friendly Handbook for Skywatchers", by H. Robert Mills and published by Albion Publishing of Chichester, Sussex, England. ISBN 1-898563-02-0 (hardback) or 1-

Test again - please ignore.

2003-10-14 Thread tony moss
Still not receiving some messages - general as well as SML. Tony M. -