Re: Could anyone please translate this Latin inscription, for me ?

to give you light. -- Bill Thayer http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial

Re: Could anyone please translate this Latin inscription, for me ?

Mario is right; I went too fast, illuminet is a subjunctive: let the sun illuminate, or may the sun illuminate. -- B --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial

Re: owning images

; fortunately, it is subtitled Editio Stereotypa Editionis Primae (MDCCCLXXIV) . . . . -- Bill Thayer http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial

Re: FW: Painted Wall Sundials Website

your page. Had you asked me beforehand by the way, Iwould have said sure, as Ialmost always do to requests of this kind. -- Bill Thayer http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial

RE: FW: Painted Wall Sundials Website

Title: RE: FW: Painted Wall Sundials Website At 10:50 AM -0700 11/1/06, John Carmichael wrote: Hell Bill Thayer: I'm sorry you feel that way. But I would like to answer you in a civilized way if I may. First of all, I did not get that photo from your website. I found it elsewhere

RE: FW: Painted Wall Sundials Website

Title: RE: FW: Painted Wall Sundials Website John, There's a way of salvaging your work, keeping what Chris called acelebration of beauty, and providing the useful service. Keep the thumbnails (possibly making them a little smaller so they would fall under fair use) and just make each one of

Re: Pin-hole projections on meridian lines in Italy.

. -- Bill Thayer http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial

Re: Sundial Latin

horas aspice The other line is fine, rather elegant even, although good variants are possible, some shorter, for example: Una erit tibi ultima Una e quibus erit tibi ultima -- Bill Thayer http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html -

Re: dial motto in latin

At least, that's what I think it says. As always with inscriptions, photos are useful! Fortunately this one was easy. The inscription reads Solem quis dicere falsum audeat or, Who will dare to say that the sun is wrong? -- Bill Thayer http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html -

Re: Updated Revised Website

, and the usefulness of W3C validation. Kinda rough on those us who write these things, but definitely worth it. -- Bill Thayer http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html -

Re: Updated Revised Website

Agree with that! (particularly handsome color scheme, look-and-feel); but Actually i dont see any need to stay having W3c validation.. check out popular websites, try yahoo.com or even microsoft.com.. it will find loads of errors in them. And yet, they are displayed perfectly on my pc.

Re: S. Maria Novella

Title: Re: S. Maria Novella This from John Lynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] who has asked me to pass it on, writing me that I'd like to share this with the Sundial Mailing List, but for reasons which elude me I am not permitted to do so from the above email address because my sundial messages come to a

s. Maria Novella

Title: s. Maria Novella And, from a helper and pal, this collection of dial and armillary images from all over the church: http://tinyurl.com/3turb -- B

Re: Sundial at Santa Maria Novella Florence

. -- because given a loose batch of numbers like this I think we could make up almost anything -- Bill Thayer http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html -

LacusCurtius has moved

of that ISP from that list. Best, -- Bill Thayer http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html -

Re: Historical determination of the astronomical unit (again)

for you. -- Bill Thayer http://tinyurl.com/iquh

Re: Capturing web pages/sites

An intranet in Tennessee recently downloaded my friend's entire site, about 4 times in the same day -- they apparently got their settings screwed up, and it was cycling thru recursively Another thing the conscientious user of these programs should watch for, along with the depth of

Re: Capturing web pages/sites

. It is illegal to copy other people's work if it's still under copyright. If you wrote a book on dials in 1993, for example, it is illegal (and unethical) for me to make it available to the entire Internet just because it's out of print. -- Bill Thayer http://tinyurl.com/iquh -

Re: Capturing web pages/sites

, websites work best in their Web context, not truncated on a hard disk. If for some reason you must do this, please learn how to set your settings. -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -

Re: Time and Tide waits for Gnomon

and the longitude is opposite, you have a lunar eclipse. It makes no sense to say the declination of the moon is opposite that of the sun, by the way. I haven't been following the thread carefully, but the original writer may merely have meant longitude instead of declination. -- Bill Thayer

Re: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)

, to give the correction a bit better standing? -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -

Re: Canonical hours

Mario since you say it appears only once, might it be a misunderstanding on the part of the 12th-century writer?? -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -

Re: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)

with Wickedpedia; be interesting to see whether democracy is tempered there with reality, which of course is not democratic at all. Most sites with such stuff, forget it, but here the odds actually do look good. -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://tinyurl.com

Re: Solar Trivia

is a sun, but on balance I don't think so. The FOTW (Flags of the World) website has things neatly broken down by symbols; see http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/keywords.html#sun -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe

Re: Place de la Concorde

, resurrection; it suggests something not astronomical, but metaphorical: civilization arising again: but is clearly meant to suggest rising as well. The whole thing remains a mystery to me. -- Bill Thayer http://tinyurl.com/iquh

Re: Dividing the Circle

in limited print runs. You'll be fine. -- Bill Thayer http://tinyurl.com/iquh -

Re: Fun Analemmatic

sectioned off into months to correct for the equation of time (my idea). I'm the merest layman, Bill, but gosh! what an inventive trifecta you have on that page -- I hope they all last a very long time. -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://tinyurl.com

Re: Dial of Augustus

://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/.Texts/PLATOP*/Obeliscus_Augusti.html -- Bill Thayer http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/home.html -

Re: Dial of Augustus

but the URLs do get unwieldy! Try: http://tinyurl.com/iqi9 It is supposed to be good forever... Wow, what payback Dave! Yes, that's a handy-dandy solution to a pesky problem. Leave to my suspicious mind to wonder where the catch might be. Rereading my main note on the sundial, I find I

possibly obscure sundial site

mostly rather out-of-the-way ones; they've just opened shop and are looking to add lots more. (Se sei italiano/a o se conosci bene l' Italia, magari puoi aiutarli.) -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -

Re: Your Opinion?

, of course: your solution might be to put them in a simple table, and set the color of the table background to black? -- Bill Thayer http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/home.html -

RE: duomo di Milano

at least), through the Archive. If you use the Wayback Machine ( http://archive.org ) and search for http://www.teklab.it/utenti/vaccaro/DefaultE.htm you will find the top level, in English. The major subpages have live links to Archive files, and the one Bill referenced above is the first of

Re: Obelisk as first sundial?

in town, a monument to how wonderful he was and made everything so peaceful for everyone (by murdering thousands of people). For a time there were pages online about that aspect of the Horologium-Ara Pacis complex, but I think they've vanished now. -- Bill Thayer http://www.ukans.edu/history/index

Re: Latin text

this was the kind of material looked for is that Horologium is among the links on our own Daniel Roth's sundial links page. -- Bill Thayer http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/home.html (and that bilingual Censorinus is here:) http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe

Re: A sundial at the rebuilt World Trade Center?

building made of two shades of stone or concrete). Sorry to be so vague; New Yorkers out there will very likely instantly clarify me. -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html

Re: New Website

by the user, opens a photo popup; and the link itself warns you that that's what it's going to do. -- Bill Thayer LacusCurtius at the University of Kansas http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/home.html -

Re: Sundial web pages and controlled vocabulary

the varying frequency at which the page is rechecked (which in turn is based on the engine's ranking of it). For many sites, it is around 6 months. -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -

Re: Sundial web pages and controlled vocabulary

a link to an article on the Lacus Curtius on the homepage of my site. You will find Wild West Web to be a very accurate name for it. No rules, and good luck. -- Bill Thayer LacusCurtius http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/home.html -

Re: Salam Aidil Fitri

mail that just crossed my tube -- X-Spam-Report: SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,TO_LOCALPART_EQ_REAL X-Spam-Report: FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,TO_LOCALPART_EQ_REAL this message is spam, containing characteristic spam phrases and from someone forging their return address; why are we then

Re: Sundial Mottos

In addition to Google, the main sources for sundial website information are: http://www.infraroth.de/slinks.html http://www.sundials.co.uk/ http://sundials.org/links/ -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe

Re: Sundial Mottos

Judeo-Spanish language, of special importance in the Middle Ages.] -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -

Re: Are we all really THAT eccentric?

on your page, in addition to C[r]owley: sightings millennium Powers -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -

Re: Back to the equinoxes names

: their precession is in fact fairly heavily used and commented on in astrology. So how exactly did Draco get into the nomenclature here? I don't know. -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -

Re: Now I understand this thing of the Draco!

, not the constellation, and in fact is defined as... the 30 degrees along the ecliptic that follow the point of the March equinox. -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/home.html -

Re: Back to the equinoxes names

(which one is the head and the tail?) The head, Caput Draconis, is the ascending node; the tail, the descending. Ascending... northwards, of course -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -

Re: Compass Variations for True North (Polaris)

empirical tables must exist. -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -

Re: Amazing!

online in the early days of the Net (92-95) regret them just a bit: the Net is not as vigorous as it once was... -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -

Re: clock regulation

, of course. -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome -

Re: spam

be drowned. -- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -

Re: The sundial Police

the appearance of things counts far more than knowledge of the underlying realities. I watch it day in day out with the people wandering my website. -- Bill Thayer LacusCurtius http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman -

Re: Vitruvius or Oughtred?

the other language, is available online on my site -- it may be easier to understand. If this list reaches a consensus, I'll be glad to add a note to the appropriate passage. -- Bill Thayer http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/home.html -

Re: sundial of ahaz

-kh-, formerly as -ch- as in chutzpah); see therefore the link on the NASS links page http://sundials.org/links/sites.htm -- Bill Thayer LacusCurtius http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman

Re: Sundial Trick Photography

reader. Go to my Rome page, then to churches, then to S. M. in Cosmedin.) -- Bill Thayer LacusCurtius http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman

Re: Angular units

G = Gradus = Latin for degree; whence the name of the failed metric unit. -- Bill Thayer LacusCurtius http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman

Re: Oughtred

that other persons by the same last name might not pronounce it some other way. -- Bill Thayer LacusCurtius http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman

Solinus on Pyramids

turne our talke from Egypt. And about time, I might add. -- Bill Thayer LacusCurtius http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman

Re: Sundials in Toscany; and elsewhere

readers do horrible things to such longer URIs, it's accessible from my homepage, as in Bill Thayer http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/home.html

Dial of Achaz

Hebrew is being corrected). ListOwner BTW: my previous e-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) suddenly went down out from under me, no possibility to regain it, so I apologize for any bounces, and do unsubscribe me if not already from that old address, thanx. Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4

Good people on list

Congrats to those who track down forgers, spread info on how to do this (helpful on other lists as well), and in general serve Truth. I wouldn't expect anything else out of this list. Bill Thayer LacusCurtius http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman

The Sundial of Augustus: help please?

), by clicking on the Platner link; then, on the Platner index page, on Obeliscus Augusti. Thanks in advance for any and all help (and please have no fear of finding me easily offended by what will after all be my own ignorance). Bill Thayer LacusCurtius http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe