Re: the oldest horizontalvertical dial

2004-02-23 Thread Frans W. Maes
Hi Marcin all, I'm looking for any information about the first use (or the first records) of horizontal and vertical sundial ? Where it was, when etc. I read about sundial history and I found quite a lot information about the oldest, most simple dials (gnomons, obelisks etc) but I can't

Re: Birthday-once more

2004-02-23 Thread Gianni Ferrari
Hi Andrew, the few lines in "approximate" Polish were written by me to Reinhold as a joke , in reply of his message for the Copernicus birthday. Unfortunately the trasmission via Email has corrupted the Polish letters. In my intentions the messagesaid: "For my friend Reinhold, Many