Fer J. de Vries

2015-04-13 Thread Reinhold Kriegler
Title: Fer J. de Vries Caro Luigi Ghia! What a wonderful message and great idea! I do hope it will become true! It would be a unique project! "It would be nice for the whole gnomonic community in the world whether the Dutch gnomonic society would gather and publish all his gnomonic opera. As

Re: Fer de Vries passed away

2015-04-13 Thread Perit Alexei Pace
I join in all these eulogies, there is definitely the same common sentiment. I think it would be very fitting if an existing large Dutch public sundial, or a new one, be named after him. Regards, Alexei On 13 April 2015 at 10:55, tonylindi...@talktalk.net tonylindi...@talktalk.net wrote: Dear

Re: Fer de Vries passed away

2015-04-13 Thread tonylindi...@talktalk.net
Dear everyone, I am so sorry to hear of Fer's passing. The dear man was very helpful to me in the past when I was acquiring the essential skills of a diallist and on several occasions thereafterThe World is a poorer place without him. Best Wishes, Tony Moss

AW: Die Grieskirchner Kepleruhr

2015-04-13 Thread Josef Pastor
Dear Bill, the face is explained on a special project site http://kepleruhr.at/ especially on http://kepleruhr.at/funktion/11-funktion/20-ziffernblatt and with some videos http://kepleruhr.at/videos-zur-funktion/19-medien/videos/24-uebersicht and on youtube

Re: Die Grieskirchner Kepleruhr

2015-04-13 Thread Bill Gottesman
Awesome dial. I have never seen a gapped nodus like that before, not have I seen the use of mirrors to project an image for when the sun is behind the wall. Please tell us who designed this dial, and how it was commissioned? I could not find that information in the article. I work with mirror