Re: Fer's legacy - diptych

2020-09-07 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Hi Frans, some years ago I had some nice personal contacts to Fer and appreciate very much your great efforts to make his legacy publicly accessible. Thank you so much Jürgen Hoefeld Am Mo., 7. Sept. 2020 um 15:44 Uhr schrieb Alastair & Sheila : > Hello Frans > > > > Y

Re: New book: Sundials of the Adler Planetarium, by Sara J. Schechner

2019-08-27 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Hi Fred, Hi Pedro, I tried yesterday 22:00 GMT but haven't been successful. "Error inprocessing order" This morning they say again : out of stock. That 's a pitty indeed. Juergen Am Mo., 26. Aug. 2019 um 21:54 Uhr schrieb : > Hi Pedro, > > Thank you thank you (bis) > > > > I had to fill out th

Re: Sundials at the Musée de la Vie Wallonne in Liège (Belgium)

2016-01-03 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
That's great Willy! Thank you so much for this source. I went to the Museum some 20 years ago and took a lot of analog fotos. There was no other possibility at the time. When I repeated my visit to the now refurbished museum, I was very much disappointed to see only a very small number of sundial

Re: Construction of a Hemispherium

2015-09-30 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Dear sundialists, greater parts of Fer de Vries' Website can be found also on these adresses, although perhaps not in any case the latest versions. http://www.de-zonnewijzerkring.nl/eng/ (That is the old version of the website of the Netherlands Sundial Society) and http://www.dse.nl/~zonnewi

Italian exhibition on sundials and astronomical instruments

2013-07-08 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Dear Friends, I just realized that the link to the exhibition was not complete. Here it is again: http://www.osservatoriogalilei.com/home/images/Eventi/Misura_del_tempo_Dresti.pdf Best regards Juergen Hoefeld --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/

Re: Italian exhibition on sundials and astronomical instruments

2013-07-08 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
only seeing down from the airplane from 1 Meters.;-) Best regards to Guido Dresti. Yours Juergen 2013/7/8 Jürgen Hoefeld > Dear Sundial Friends, Dear Retians, > > I would like to draw your attention to a nice exhibition on > reconstructions of sundials and other astronomical

Italian exhibition on sundials and astronomical instruments

2013-07-08 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Dear Sundial Friends, Dear Retians, I would like to draw your attention to a nice exhibition on reconstructions of sundials and other astronomical instruments in Craveggia, Northern Italy. I have already seen a number of them and was very impressed. They have been reconstructed by Guido Dresti fr

sundials in Naples and Pompei

2013-07-01 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Dear sundialists, A question particularly to our Italian colleagues We will be visiting Napoli, Ercolano, Pompei and Paestum in September. There I will be looking for ancient sundials. One portable dial which I have seen only as scetches in books up to now is the so called "ham" dial of Portici.

Re: paper sundial

2011-12-16 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Hi Fabio, your program works fine and the results are marvelous. I printed all 4 of them for my location, but I have to wait to try them out because the sun is not shining today. Thanks very much for this splendid idea. Yours Jürgen Hoefeld 2011/12/15 Fabio nonvedolora > Hi all, news f

Re: Google Earth Add-on

2011-11-19 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Hi Jim, there is a program called MB-Ruler, which may be what you are looking for. It is also available in an English version. See http://www.markus-bader.de/MB-Ruler/index.htm Best regards Juergen Hoefeld 2011/11/19 James E. Morrison > Thanks for all the responses. I should have been more co

Sundial digest ?

2011-08-10 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Dear all, I have found several times the expression "sundial digest, vol. ##, issue ##" in the last time. Please tell me, is this a special journal I am missing or does it reference to special threads on the sundial mailing list? Or is it a special archive? Thank you very much for your answers.

Navicula Sundial

2010-11-01 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Dear colleagues, I am looking for a copy of „The Late-Medieval Navicula“ which is cited in various references to be from different authors/publishers. 1. Nicola Severino: Gnomonics Bibliography: „PHILIP, Trevor & Sons Ltd. The Late-Medieval Navicula, see Turner, Gerard L’E entry. TURNER, Pr

Sundials in Morocco?

2010-05-27 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Dear all, I am planning a trip through Morocco in October, with stops in Rabat, Fes, Meknes, Erfoud, Marrakech, Essaouira and am wondering whether there are sundials that I should not miss on the trip. Has any of you an idea what are the musts to see? Any other ideas concerning scientific instrum

Re: looking for I.J. Kragten

2009-10-19 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
e did a lot in dialing > together. > Pity he past away in 2001. > > I only have a paper copy of his English manuscript about the Ship of Venice > but I read that > Jürgen Hoefeld should have an electronic version. > I tried to find it at Jürgens website but I couldn't downlo

Re: looking for I.J. Kragten

2009-10-19 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Hello Robert, I am also very interested in the Navicula de Venetiis. I her article you cited, Catherine Eagleton mentioned here thesis. I contacted her some months ago wether this would be available and she told me "In fact, most of the material in my PhD thesis is being published as articles, and

Re: no analemman

2009-10-05 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Hello Frank, hello all, I remember a massive sundial of 19th century made by the familiy Bollee at Square Robert-Triger in Le Mans France were people could adjust the dial to the current date by means of a crank. See the photos and explanation at http://michel.lalos.free.fr/cadrans_solaires/autres

Roman Cylinder Dial in the Museum Atestino in Este, Italy

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Dear all, does anyone of our Italian Sundial friends know whether the Roman Cylinder Sundial described by Mario Arnaldi and Karl-Heinz Schaldach in the Museo Atestino in Este is on display in these days? I might have the opportunity to visit Este on our trip from Padua to Ravenna on May 9 and wou

Navicula Article

2009-03-25 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Dear all, please forgive my ignorance, the article should be not in the British Sundial Society but in the Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society. I do have the CD with all articles from 1-80, but the quality of the photos is not always sufficient as in this case. So, if anybody could help

BSS-Article

2009-03-24 Thread Jürgen Hoefeld
Dear all, I am looking for the BSS-Article of 1992, Vol. 35, p.22? on "The Navicula Sundial" by Kristin Lippincott. As the Bulletin is not available in German Libraries I would very much appreciate your help in this matter. Thank you very much in advance Juergen Hoefeld Aachen Germany juergen.h