Hi John,
If you have a picture on screen of your computer
usethe Capture procedure of a second graphic program like
Paintshop.
There must be many more programs that will have
such a capture procedure.
Best wishes, Fer.
Fer J. de Vries
De Zonnewijzerkringmailto:[EMAIL
John C. et al,
You should be able to copy the picture on your screen using the PrtScn
button near the top of most keyboards. This puts the screen image on your clip
board, which you can then paste and edit in photoshop or Word or any other
similar software. Pressing Alt-PrtScn is supposed
Hello,
My name is Divine Kumah and I am a Physics major at the University of Michigan.
A friend of mine recently visited Florence and took pictures of the sundial at
the Santa Maria Novella Cathedral in Florence, Italy.
I believe it was constructed by Leon Battista Alberti.
Inscribed on the
23. 28. 48. 55.
We originally thought they represented the geographic cordinates of the
cordinates, but unfortunately, they do not match the cordinates for Florence.
23.28 looks suspiciously like the earth's inclination in degrees and
minutes. On the other hand 48.55 is awfully close to
The solar instruments built into and on the church of Santa Maria Novella
in Florence were *not* constructed by Alberti but by Egnatio Danti. These
include:
(1) an armillary sphere on the facade--built in 1574 for determining the
time of the vernal equinox by the sun's shadow.
(2) an
