Re: Fwd: Direct reading time.

Use the best clock of all, the Sun (or Earth, if you prefer that new notion of Copernicus') - a photocell to track the Sun, advancing the mechanism one tick per day. Dave > Bill > > All we need now is a good clock to control the mechanism which compensates > for the EoT? > > Brian Albinson > -

Sundial worth 60,000 pound is stolen

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/8277198.stm Willy LEENDERS Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium) www.wijzerweb.be --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial

Re: Fwd: Direct reading time.

Bill All we need now is a good clock to control the mechanism which compensates for the EoT? Brian Albinson - Original Message - From: Bill Gottesman To: Robert Bargalló Cc: sundial@uni-koeln.de Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 10:24 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: Direct reading ti

Re: Fwd: Direct reading time.

I like it.  I would like to hear the story of how it was designed and fabricated.  Is it located at a residence or a public place? -Bill Gottesman Burlington, VT Robert Bargalló wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Robert Bargalló Date: 2009/9/

Re: Direct reading

I have to agree with Robert, who appears to have constructed an amazing instrument! Surely, there is room in this world for *two* types of sundials: (1) Those that stay true to the concept of time before mechanical clocks, when local apparent solar time was the "real" time, no matter what ti

Direct reading

Dear Willy, My long experience to persons outside the sundials is as follows: A). Too complicated analemmatic figures or the necessary use of algebraic calculations to know the time that they consider the real one; for this reason, these people think the solar quadrant as an obsolete object. B). T

Re: Direct reading time.

I agree completely !! Gianni Ferrari 2009/9/27 Willy Leenders > An impressive and sophisticated mechanism as solution that (hardly) > nobody asks for a problem that (hardly) nobody has. > A sundial that indicates the civill time, gives you no more information > than you've already on your wat

Re: Moment dials

I too like the description 'Moment Dial'. These don't just have to be limited to one moment either and as John suggests they don't have to be in stained glass.  My favourite is the wonderful liberation monument in Guernsey, Channel Islands (SRN 3230) designed by David Le Conte and Eric Snell. It

Re: Direct reading time.

An impressive and sophisticated mechanism as solution that (hardly) nobody asks for a problem that (hardly) nobody has. A sundial that indicates the civill time, gives you no more information than you've already on your watch. A sundial that indicates the real time, the solar time, is easy to

Re: A stained glas projection dial?

I like the name 'Moment dial'. A modern example is the 100 foot 'Peninsula Spire' in front of the Millennium Dome at Greenwich. A stone slab in the surrounding paving records "At 11:06 hrs on the 17th May each year the mast shadow is centered on this stone". Regards, John - Original M

RE: A stained glas projection dial?

How about "Moment Dials"= "Memento Mori Dial"? If it would be such a dial I would expect some clarifying text in the neighbourhood. This looks more like a shading roof. And all those squares, no I can't even imagin that this cpould be a Memento Mori Dial. Thibaud At 02:57 27-9-2009, John Carmic