A short stay in Italy

2010-10-13 Thread Tony Moss
Fellow Shadow Watchers, I shall be staying near Brescia in Lombardia for three days in mid-November but with a hire car and a few spare hours to fill outside my visit to the Perazzi factory. Any suggestions for dials worth seeing in the area or local mu

Re: A short stay in Italy

2010-10-13 Thread Frank King
Dear Tony, You say... > I shall be staying near Brescia in Lombardia... One thing you can do is to visit http://www.sundialsatlas.eu You then click on the map button at the top and, by dragging the map and zooming, home in on Brescia. Alas, there are no sundials shown in Bresci

AW: A short stay in Italy >Brescia 24!

2010-10-13 Thread Reinhold Kriegler
"Alas, there are no sundials shown in Brescia itself but you can see others in the general area. You just click around until you find some that take your fancy!" Wrong, dear Frank! The Italian sundial catalogue announces 24 sundials for Brescia! Ciao! Reinhod * ** *** * ** ***

Re: A short stay in Italy

2010-10-13 Thread Frans W. Maes
Dear Tony, The ITINERARIO "ARTE & SCIENZA": http://www.astrofilibresciani.it/Attivita/Attivita_Scuole/Tour_Astronomico.htm has several stops related to astronomy and sundials. Last year I downloaded an English version, but it seems that presently only the Italian version is available. I think yo

Re: AW: A short stay in Italy >Brescia 24! >Frank 0!

2010-10-13 Thread Frank King
Dear Reinhold, Your news is good news... > The Italian sundial catalogue > announces 24 sundials for Brescia! My news is bad news... >> Alas, there are no sundials shown >> in Brescia itself... I think I should have punctuated my remark differently and added a "t": Atlas: there are no sund

Re: A short stay in Italy

2010-10-13 Thread Tony Moss
On 13/10/2010 16:55, Frank King wrote: > Dear Tony, > > You say... > >> I shall be staying near Brescia in Lombardia... > One thing you can do is to visit > > http://www.sundialsatlas.eu > > You then click on the map button at the top and, > by dragging the map and zooming, home i

Re: A short stay in Italy

2010-10-13 Thread Tony Moss
On 13/10/2010 18:19, Frans W. Maes wrote: > Dear Tony, > > The ITINERARIO "ARTE & SCIENZA": > http://www.astrofilibresciani.it/Attivita/Attivita_Scuole/Tour_Astronomico.htm > > > has several stops related to astronomy and sundials. Last year I > downloaded an English version, but it seems that

Re: A short stay in Italy

2010-10-13 Thread Mario Arnaldi
one of the most known scientific instrument in Brescia is the famous Byzantine astrolab in the Civic Museums of Art and History (Musei civivi di Arte e Storia). The astrolab is dated back to the year 1062. Mario --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/ma

Sad news for the Sundial Community

2010-10-13 Thread Bill Gottesman
I learned from JD Gard's website for the ATEN sundials that David (Gard?), the inventor of the Aten heliochronometer, has died. I do not know if the company will still sell the sundial. I own one of the models, and it is a favorite to show guests. It is readable to better than 1 minute. I d

Re: Sad news for the Sundial Community

2010-10-13 Thread Roger Bailey
Thanks for the note. Here is a link to the ATEN website with some pictures of his sundial. http://atensundials.com/homepage.html Clip and paste the url text into your browser. Regards, Roger Bailey -- From: "Bill Gottesman" Sent: Wednesday, Octo