I'm here too - just a bit on the "too busy" side to do much more than keeping
an eye on what's going on in the list. I work in a small Science Centre and we
are opening a new building with exhibitions soon. We are slowly expanding the
staff and the latest addition in the staff also thinks we nee
Well, just doing a simple count of those who title themselves Mrs, Miss and Ms
(That is to say ignoring those ladies who title themselves Dr and Prof, Rev and
any non-Engish titles etc) in the BSS Members list of a few months ago we have
46. That’s about 10% of the membership.
Patrick
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As Roger already noted, most of the people stood on the label of the month,
rather than on the point on the centerline to which the label referred.
Who knows a means by which visitors to a analemmatic sundial stand intuitively
in the right place ?
An instruction on a information panel doesn't
Dear friends,
I prefer the completely different idea of the two Italian gnomonists
Paolo Albéri Auber and Aurelio Pantanali, who have written the
information right besides the analemma-line into the floor of the Piazza
della Borsa- place! No extra panel is needed and people stay long very
close t
Women are here, maybe female names are not too obvious for people speaking
different languages and comunicating in english. My name is Roser wich means
"rosebush"and is certainly a female name.
Greetings to all
Roser
2011/3/11
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> Well, just doing a simple count of those who title themselves Mr
Some human analemmatics have footprints indicating where people should
stand.
From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On
Behalf Of Willy Leenders
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 4:38 AM
To: Sundial List
Subject: Re: Moscow sundial?
As Roger already noted, most
Dear Dialling Colleagues,
The British Sundial Society is pleased to announce that the full run of BSS
Bulletins, from the start of the Society in 1989 until September 2010 (a total
of 75 issues) is now available on a DVD-R.
The cost of the DVD to BSS members is £25 +p&p. It may also be purcha
This is wonderful news John D. !
I have all the digital Compendiums on my computers and this format comes in
very handy and I use them often- usually when Im researching something or
on the road. You have sent me many PDF copies of BSS articles in the past
for use in our websites, and Ive no
Dear all,
Willy is right in noting that instructions on information panels don't
work. I very much like the footprints. I think they are effective, with
or without explanatory text. From left to right in the attached
composite picture (in black & white; the color version, at 39 kB, did
not pa
Dear all,
Frans is so kind to show my solution in answer to my own question.
But it does not work also, as I have observed in the meantime.
The instruction "stand on the date" is not enough.
Perhaps the instruction must be: "stand on the date with the midline between
your feet"
And yet I have my
That is Hilarious! Maybe for nickle it can read your fortune, too!
-Bill Gottesman
On 3/11/2011 4:56 PM, Willy Leenders wrote:
Maybe this helps: a bathroom weighting scale on a rail along the midline and the
instruction on the scale, "slide the scale until the date and read your weight and
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