Using Google Patent to find Sundial Patents.

2007-05-08 Thread Roderick Wall
Hi all, Was having a look at Google Patents using the key word sundial and found a number of interesting sundial patents. Below is one that I thought was an interesting patent: Combination lawn/garden ornament and cremation container

Re: Italian hours

2007-05-08 Thread Willy Leenders
A clever question/answer, Chris. So I did'nt yet examine my problem. Willy LEENDERS Hasselt Flanders (Belgium) Op 8-mei-07, om 01:40 heeft Chris Lusby Taylor het volgende geschreven: Could you not, just as logically, ask why clocks, watches and normal sundials don't indicate directly the

Re: Using Google Patent to find Sundial Patents.

2007-05-08 Thread Richard M Koolish
Here is a sundial at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge MA, USA. It's probably not a cremation container, but certainly could be. http://www.dickkoolish.com/rmk_page/sundials/payson_mtauburn.html Hi all, Was having a look at Google Patents using the key word sundial and = found a number

Re: Using Google Patent to find Sundial Patents.

2007-05-08 Thread Roderick Wall
Hi Richard, Very interesting, do you know what it is made of is it stone or concrete? I like the bench seats each side of the head stone. Roderick Wall. - Original Message - From: Richard M Koolish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:21 PM Subject:

Re: Italian hours

2007-05-08 Thread Gianni Ferrari
Dear Chris, it is difficult for me to answer to your question, since it is not gnomonic but philosophical . Perhaps the thing depends on the fact that the ancients used the unequal hours from dawn to sunset and therefore they called first hour the first part of the day and

New web site about sundials (El Bierzo -NW of SPAIN)

2007-05-08 Thread rogelio melendez tercero
Dear all: I want to inform to all mailing list members that my web site (mobisl.com) has been eliminated some time ago, but now there is opened a new web site which contains new contents,and also ancients. Furthermore, we try to improve our web as good as we can. The new

Re: Italian hours

2007-05-08 Thread Th. Taudin Chabot
They indicate the past time because we know what is passed but we don't know our future... Thibaud Chabot At 01:40 08-05-2007, Chris Lusby Taylor wrote: Could you not, just as logically, ask why clocks, watches and normal sundials don't indicate directly the time left until midnight?