Re: Inquiry - Part 1

2017-04-27 Thread rodwall1...@gmail.com
Hi Steve, Any chance of getting a copy of or where to get it. I found a 1737 publication /Regle artificielle du temps /by Henry Sully, an English clockmaker in Paris and clockmaker to the Duc D'Orleans, which has fairly extensive instructions on how to regulate clocks using either a sundial or

Re: Inquiry - Part 1

2017-04-27 Thread Steve Lelievre
Dear Frank, You're right - the timeline casts doubt on the premise of the enquiry. Well spotted! For anyone who's interested, here's a snippet from/Enclopaedia Britannica/ (7th ed.) "The first [Equation Clock] was made about the year 1693 by Mr Joseph Williamson, an English artist then wor

Re: Solar watchface for a Pebble smartwatch

2017-04-27 Thread Richard Langley
Nice but be aware: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/08/kickstarter-pebble-shut-down -- Richard Langley - | Richard B. LangleyE-mail: l...@unb.ca | | Geodetic Research Labo

Solar watchface for a Pebble smartwatch

2017-04-27 Thread Dan-George Uza
Hello, I've recently bought a Pebble smartwatch and I thought I'd share my favorite watchface with you. It's called "Solar watch". It displays the current date, outside temperature, standard time (in white), but also sunrise and sunset times, as well as local apparent solar time (in black). The h