Dear Chris,
Thank you for your rapid and full response. It does make the subject more
understandable for
me. (Several of the authors I mentioned do have methods that are not
iterative, but seem slow
and non-direct, Sorry for the mislabeling!)
I'm thinking forward to the time we can toss one
Dear Nicola all,
Thank you, Nicola, for collecting all these links to old sundial texts.
Most of the classical textbooks of gnomonics can be found here. I had
some good hours browsing through this impressive collection.
I couldn read only some, but often enjoyed the nicely engraved figures.
Dear Frans and All,
Thank you for your interest and appreciation on my new
project. Unfortunately, all digitized books in Google Books have the defect of
not having the pages open while scanning the tables and pictures bent. For
several years, these books are always scanned in this way and
