Fellow Shadow Watchers,
A BBC Radio 4 news item this
morning mentioned an unusual sundial excavated from under a house floor
and promised a picture on the R4 website. I couldn't find the dial
described but, in addition to a pic of a brass dial made for
Because I would like to include him into the second
edition of the "Biographical Index of Astronomy" (which includes
also sundial makers, see http://books.google.com/books?id=L8r5K_4bdxUC
for the first edition), I ask for his complete name.
The answer was: David L. Gard.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Dic
Mapping during 600 years anniversary of the astrological tower clock situated
at Old Town Square in center of Prague.
This was projection onto the front of the church
http://vimeo.com/15749093
Best regards
Kevin Karney---
https://lists.uni-koeln.d
Greetings fellow dialists,
Brent posits: "Suppose I was on an island in the middle of the ocean". A
Polynesian navigator would know the bearing and distance (not in those
terms) of the island from his starting point without the aid of any
instruments. Star risings and settings, wind and swell
Hi Tony et al,
The buried sundial is on the BBC website at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/Aa1Ir_diS7iBuKens1XJWQ
I described it in an article in the BSS Bulletin, 16(ii), p.57 (June 2004).
The Manchester Road railway station dial has also been the subject of Bulletin
articl
These topics are well explored in emergency navigation books, such as Harold
Gatty's classic "The Raft Book" and the excellent modern "Emergency
Navigation" by David Burch. And there are many web site about Polynesian
navigation.
You might not be able to pinpoint your location but you can certainl
Hi everyone,
This Saturday is Astronomy Day, October 16 2010. My astronomy club is
having a solar observing session at a local library. I am having another one
of my educational sundial displays again. I want to add a couple pictures to
my display.
I am looking for an example o
Good afternoon from a very chilly Sydney (where's Spring when you want it?),
The following book may be of interest to list members:
Wolfschmidt, G. (ed) 2009 Cultural heritage of astronomical observatories: From
astronomical observatories to modern astrophysics (Proceedings of the
International
Unfortunately, this book is out of print. In June this year I ordered
it from the publisher (at a price of about 20 Euro), but I got the
answer that it is no longer available.
BR, Wolfgang
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Datum: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:41:30 +1100
Von: "John Pickard"
An: "Sundia
