From the New York times

2013-03-31 Thread Robert Terwilliger
Sara http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/fashion/weddings/sara-schechner-kenneth-l aunie-vows.html?emc=tnttntemail0=y Schechner, Kenneth Launie - Vows Robert Terwilliger Certified Master Clockmaker 2963 Bird Avenue Coconut Grove FL 33133 305-447-4619 Map to my

RE: From the New York times

2013-03-31 Thread Dave Bell
What a lovely story!! Congratulations, Sara! Dave _ From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Robert Terwilliger Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 8:49 AM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: From the New York times Sara

Re: From the New York times

2013-03-31 Thread koolish
Last November, Sara, Ken, Roger Sinnott and I visited Wellesley College to check out the observatory and a couple of sundials on the campus. The pictures are here: http://www.dickkoolish.com/rmk_page/pictures_112312.html Sara

RE: Sundial At Tower Court, Wellesley College

2013-03-31 Thread Schechner, Sara
The dial plate is a reproduction of the early 20th century, and the gnomon a messed up replacement! I have been thinking of writing this up with the Team for the NASS Compendium as a short article on how to approach a dial found in the field. Would that be of interest to others? Cheers,

another free programmable CAD program in addition to DeltaCAD and FreeCAD

2013-03-31 Thread Simon [illustratingshadows
In addition to DeltaCAD, I mentioned a while back that FreeCAD was free, all inclusive, and programmable using Python. My python programs for FreeCAD include hDial, vDial, vDec, mDial, pDial, Shepherd, winged azimuth, the Cappucin dials, and an almanac.

RE: Sundial At Tower Court, Wellesley College

2013-03-31 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Sara,   Your idea of writing up the Wellesley College dial is a good one - I for one would like to know the full story and read your experiences.   The replica dial isn't a bad attempt (other than that awful gnomon!) and appears to have been hand engraved. But the details of the Equation of

RE: another free programmable CAD program in addition to DeltaCAD andFreeCAD

2013-03-31 Thread Dave Bell
(ability (action (agent we) (time now) (object LISP) use)) ! -Original Message- From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Simon [illustratingshadows Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 12:10 PM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: another free programmable CAD program in