AW: Fake "trifilar" Sun Dial?

2020-09-14 Thread Siegfried Netzband
Dear Frans, thanks again for your answer and the link provided. In the meantime I had time to look up the link and the information behind it. By the way, the link did also lead me to some phantastic informations. Well, I must admitt that I do not understand the theory behind the Trifilar Sundial

Fer's legacy - diptych

2020-09-14 Thread Alastair Hunter
Hello Frans Your link to all the articles of Fer’s Legacy is wonderful. Thank you very much for telling us about it. I had already seen a copy of his article "Construction of hemispherium", showing how to generate Babylonian and Italian hour lines in a hemisphere bowl. Do you know if he desc

Fer's legacy - diptych

2020-09-14 Thread Alastair Hunter
Dear Frans Thank you very much for your reply. I can only imagine the time and effort all of you have put into making Fer’s legacy available in data form and in English. It is terrific! The diptych concave is, I think, not a simple mathematical problem. I have done it by 3D drawing but i