Dear friend,
I ting this is interesting for you.
We have just launch asecond reprint of the second edition of the
GNOMONIC OCTOLINGUAL VOCABULARY,
by Josep Maria Vallhonrat , Doctor Civil Engineer, Professor
of Scientific and Technical Translation in the UniversitatPompeu Fabra of
Dear Shadow watchers (if not shadowy types!)
A little while ago, someone (can't remember who now) posted a report about
Martian sundials by Bill Nye. Several pages into it he refers to early
Greek sundials by the name Plekhnaton(s). I had never met this word before,
and wondered what it meant.
Peter,
I don't know what one is either, however it occurs to me that Aton, in
ancient Egypt, was the Sun god.
Perhaps the sundial was called sun-*** where *** is the Plekh part. The
Greeks could have borrowed the word from the Egyptian language.
- Original Message -
From: Peter Tandy
- Original Message -
From: Peter Tandy
To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003
11:32 AM
Subject: Plekhnatons (slightly
off-topic)
Dear Shadow watchers (if not shadowy types!)A little
while ago, someone (can't remember who now) posted
