change of email address

Please note that my new email address is da...@davidbrownsundials.com. I have tried to contact the uni-koeln address manager, but to no effect, to transfer my 'account' but to no effect. how do I do it? David Brown Somerton, Somerset, UK ___

Re: French dam to be world´s biggest sundia l

Dear all, The audio track of the video is bad, so I was unable to hear which dam this is, and how the sundial would function. Does anyone know more about this intriguing project? Best regards, Frans Maes Josef Pastor wrote: > > Dear Dialists, > > Famous French Denis Savoie presents a French

Re: French dam to be world´s biggest sundial

Hello Frans and all, It's the Castillon Dam, see this AFP article, you will understand easiler the principle http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gFPjvks3c5EemskZkRWhCB-Fu_IA More information is available in French "Cadran Info" magazine (including modelling by Gérard Baillet and ca

Re: French dam to be world´s biggest sundial

Fantastic! At 200,000 Euros is it also the world's most expensive sundial? Regards Andrew Pettit -Original Message- From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of robic.joel Sent: 15 June 2009 18:13 To: Sundial related list with international au

Re: French dam to be world´s biggest sundial

Frans and all, A more understandable version of the video (only in French) about the sundial on the 'barrage de Castillon" (Alpes et Haute Provence, France) is to see at http://video.aol.fr/video-detail/un-cadran-solaire-gant-castillon/ 4136893998 Willy LEENDERS Hasselt in Flanders (Belgi

Re: French dam to be world´s biggest sundia l

Andrew Pettit wrote: Fantastic! At 200,000 Euros is it also the world's most expensive sundial? Regards Not by miles! During the BSS Safari to Nuremberg we were shown a comparatively plain polar dial which, if I recall correctly, cost.wait for it...Three MILLION Euros. I've

Re: French dam to be world´s biggest sundial

But Tony, it's Art! How can you put a price to it?? On Jun 15, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Tony Moss wrote: > Andrew Pettit wrote: >> Fantastic! >> >> At 200,000 Euros is it also the world's most expensive sundial? >> >> Regards >> >> > Not by miles! During the BSS Safari to Nuremberg we were shown a

Translations

Confrere: I am interested in translating email and web pages into English. I use as example the note from Joel about the Castillon Dam. The link contained in his email is to a web page in French and so my question. I use Eudora for mail and have receded to FireFox version 2.00.18. However,

Re: French dam to be world´s biggest sundial

Hello Tony, You can't be serious that the dial in your image cost 3 M Euros. Surely not. While it looks like a rather attractive design, there doesn't seem to be anything remarkable about it. I could understand maybe ten or twenty thousand Euros (nice work if you can get it!), but not 3 M. Is

Re: Translations

Hello Steve, Google offer a translator (http://translate.google.com/translate_t#) , but I've never tried it with French, nor with sun dial literature. I have used the English to Spanish translator and vice versa, and it's pretty rough to say the least. You can set it up in Internet Explorer or

Re: Translations

Steve and all, I use Babelfish from yahoo http://fr.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt or google translate Try: http://fr.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-res&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhostednews%2Fafp%2Farticle%2FALeqM5gFPjvks3c5EemskZkRWhCB-Fu_IA&lp=fr_en