BSS-Article

2009-03-24 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Dear all, I am looking for the BSS-Article of 1992, Vol. 35, p.22? on "The Navicula Sundial" by Kristin Lippincott. As the Bulletin is not available in German Libraries I would very much appreciate your help in this matter. Thank you very much in advance Juergen Hoefeld Aachen Germany juergen.h

Chinese time - following The End of the Day

2009-03-24 Thread Andrew James
I found Mario's explanations on Roman and European hour systems most fascinating: thank you. I have a tangentially related question or questions; Mario mentioned that different times were appropriate to different people (country or city dwellers, perhaps). I understand (largely from "Heavenly Cl

Re: mathematical formula

2009-03-24 Thread Thomas Steiner
Hi Tony, I'd be interested in the slides as well, please send them to me too. @Nani: I created a little program in R (some statistics softwarepackage) which gives (analemmatic) dials of horizontal and vertical sundials for different locations in pdf and other formats in a given (say cm) size. But