Re: Does this type of dial have a name?

2021-08-16 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Hi Peter, A descriptive name which is sometimes at

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2020-08-09 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- DearAndré, I think the articles to which you refer

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2020-07-01 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Hi Sara, Ross et al, My understanding is that a se

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2020-04-09 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Dear Frans, The picture that Dan-George pointed us t

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2020-04-09 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Dear Frans, The picture that Dan-George pointed us t

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2020-04-07 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Hi Peter, For a mathematical and practical analysis,

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2019-06-01 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Hi Steve et al, The BSS Glossary has a separate term

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2019-05-22 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Hi Frans et al, Polarizing sundials have featured a n

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2019-03-13 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Dear Dialling colleagues, The term in the BSS Glossar

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2019-01-03 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Hi Frank, Bravo - two quarters of a double horizontal

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2018-10-30 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Hi Steve, The obvious early source for bird gnomons

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2018-08-10 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Only on flat planes, not inside scaphes J D

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2018-08-10 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Hi Dan, This is a fairly typical diptych dial, probab

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2018-07-21 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Hi Ian, I have been searching for the Dickens sundial

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2018-07-12 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Hi Steve, Most Scottish lighthouses were equipped wi

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2018-06-30 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- This is my second attempt to send this message, hopef

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2018-06-30 Thread John Davis via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Hi all, I wonder who designed it? They incorporated

Re: Barrington Court multi-face dial

2017-08-12 Thread John Davis
none of the dials faces exactly south. It is surprisingly small with the actual polyhedron at not much more than head height. Recorded early in the Society's history (SRN0040), it is in good condition and a nice example. Photo: John Davis." The March 2013 article (by Peter Ransom) is

Re: new work on European pocket dials in Colonial America

2016-10-09 Thread John Davis
Hi Sara, Congratulations to you and your co-authors. I would look forward to reading it but the link you give to Brill shows the book at the horrendous price of $150 and my previous experience with other titles in this Brill series is that the printing quality can be very poor and the pictures v

Re: Using linkages to draw curves on sundials

2016-09-07 Thread John Davis
Hi John, I can offer: J. Davis: ‘Alightweight laser trigon for layout of sundial lines’, BSS Bulletin, 11(iii), pp.144-146, (1999)  which included drawing analemmic hour lines, and for an earlier purely mechanical example (built of Meccano!) there was Noel Ta'Bois: 'Sundial Line Drawing Jig', BSS

Re: Sixteenth-century wall dials with planetary hours?

2016-09-02 Thread John Davis
Hi Sara, Richard et al, Sixteenth century wall dials of any sort are rare and have usually been repainted many times so it is not always clear how original the design is. There are a few 17th century dials with planetary hours around: you can see a couple in the articleM. Lowne & J. Davis: ‘Plan

Re: A Strange Rainbow

2016-08-17 Thread John Davis
Hi Jackie, I think that what you have there is a circumzenithal arc (CZA), possibly with a matching circumhorizontal arc (CHA). They are caused by the sun's rays refracting through ice platelets high in the atmosphere. You need the sun low in the sky for them to be seen. There are other ice halo

Re: Sundial in Risen movie

2016-05-06 Thread John Davis
Hi Dan, Well spotted! However, neither the horizontal sundial nor the hourglass was invented until the Middle Ages. Yet another example of Hollywood making up history! John Dr J Davis Flowton Dials http://www.flowton-dials.co.uk/ BSS Editor http://sundialsoc.org.uk/publications/t

Re: Sundials with Greek alphabetical numerals

2016-04-15 Thread John Davis
EK stands for  Etos Kyriou, Greek for “the year of the Lord”. See J.Davis, MJ Harley & H James, 'Joseph McNally's Slate Sundials', BSS Bulletin 16(iii) pp.110-116. John Dr J Davis Flowton Dials http://www.flowton-dials.co.uk/ BSS Editor http://sundialsoc.org.uk/publication

Re: Sundial for the visually impaired

2015-06-11 Thread John Davis
Hi Dan et al, Alan Mills was co-author of an article "Sundials for the Blind" in BSS Bulletin 15(ii), 58-60 (June 2003). Regards, John- Dr J Davis Flowton Dials http://www.flowton-dials.co.uk/ BSS Editor http://sundialsoc.org.uk/publications/the-bss-bulletin/ From: "

Re: Rome Pantheon Sundial?

2015-01-06 Thread John Davis
Dear Claude et al, We published an article by Robert Hannah on this topic in the BSS Bulletin: R. Hannah: 'The Pantheon as a Timekeper', BSS Bull., 21(iv), pp. 2-4 (Dec 2009). It is available in downloadable form on the BSS website at  http://sundialsoc.org.uk/publications/the-bss-bulletin/ Re

BSS Bulletin - September

2014-09-01 Thread John Davis
Dear Dialling Colleagues, The September issue of the BSS Bulletin was recently dispatched - members should expect to receive their copies soon (if not already!). As usual, the Contents List, together with one article for free download, is on our website at www.sundialsoc.org.uk. Regards, John

Re: A few new Tables for the Gnomonist...

2014-06-12 Thread John Davis
Hi Kevin (et al), Great stuff! I particularly like your item 4, the dates when the EoT has values of whole minutes. This is a useful feature for reproducing the scales on old dials. I have possible extension to this you might like to add: many of the larger and better-quality 'London' horizonta

BSS Bulletin for June

2014-06-11 Thread John Davis
Dear Dialling colleagues, The June issue of the BSS Bulletin, a special edition for our silver jubilee, was dispatched yesterday. Members should expect it in a day or so (rather more if long distances are involved!). As usual, the Contents List and a sample article for download can be found at 

Re: Request for information about a type of altitude dial

2014-06-02 Thread John Davis
Hi Steve et al, It's usually just called a disc dial. I don't think the example shown is latitude-adjustable: the suspension point is fixed. All the historical ones I've seen are single latitude devices. Only the occulus is adjustable, for date (declination). Earlier examples had the hour point

Minsmere sundial

2014-05-27 Thread John Davis
Fellow diallists, TV viewers in the UK may be looking at the BBC2 series of 'Springwatch' programmes, with another 11 hours of nature-watching still to come. It is being filmed from the RSPB Minsmere (Suffolk) nature reserve.  As the cameras wander around, look out for a visitor attraction on t

Re: Moon dial.

2014-05-14 Thread John Davis
Hi David, The starting point for making moondials must be Michael Lowne's classic article "Moondials and the moon" in BSS Bulletin 17(i) pp3-12.  In it, amongst other things, he shows that the value of 48 minutes for the daily offset is in fact not the best number to choose. If you want someth

Re: Altitude dials as compasses

2014-05-13 Thread John Davis
Hi Jim et al, Sutton's quadrant was described at some length in a two-part article: M. Lowne & J. Davis: ‘A Horizontal Quadrant of 1658 by Henry Sutton; Part 1’, BSS Bull., 23(ii) 8-13 (Jun 2011).   with the second part in the following issue. Regards, John --- Dr

Re: an 18th-century blue-and-gold sundial

2014-04-30 Thread John Davis
Hi Bob et al, Thanks for that - good to know the house is up for sale and that the sundial is a selling feature. I believe that the dial is the one which can be seen from the street and was described by Harriet James and me in: H. James & J. Davis: ‘A close look at a Salisbury dial’, BSS Bulleti

Re: Theatrical sundial

2014-04-03 Thread John Davis
Hi Jackie, That sounds an interesting project. To answer your question about what sort of sundial a hard-up doctor might have had in 1613, I think the most likely type would have been a pocket dial, either a small round wooden one like those found on the Mary Rose (there are modern replicas th

Re: British Renaissance and sundials

2014-03-22 Thread John Davis
Hi Doug, Elizabeth et al, Yes, the James Fox programme on the English Renaissance was interesting - though not absolutely correct with its facts. When describing Nicholas Kratzer's contribution to dialling, it was actually misleading and tended to perpetuate the myth that Kratzer introduced dia

BSS Bulletin, March issue

2014-03-11 Thread John Davis
Dear colleagues, The March issue of the BSS Bulletin was dispatched a few days ago and most members should have received their copies already. Let me know is yours doesn't arrive soon. As usual, the full Contents list and a sample article are visible on our website at www.sundialsoc.org.uk Re

Re: SCOTTISH SUNDIAL

2014-01-21 Thread John Davis
Hi Dennis, Bad news, I'm afraid! This is almost certainly an early-20th-century 'decorative' dial of the type made by firms like Pearson Page Ltd and advertised in their catalogues. The spelling, the use of a motto at all, the arrangement of the hour numerals etc etc are all wrong for a 17th ce

December BSS Bulletin

2013-12-02 Thread John Davis
Dear Sundialling Colleagues, The December issue of the BSS Bulletin has just been posted out to members. If yours doesn't arrive in a reasonable time, please let me know. As usual, the complete Contents List is available on our website (http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/bulletin.php) together with a

Re: BOOK: Sundials: An Illustrated History of Portable Dials - H. Higton

2013-09-18 Thread John Davis
Hi Darek, I think they are really the same book. If you look, they have the same ISBN. Hester did write another, more academic, book cataloguing the dials at the Greenwich NMM but that was a lot more expensive. Regards, John -   Dr J Davis Flowton Dials http://www.f

September BSS Bulletin

2013-09-15 Thread John Davis
Dear Dialling Colleagues, The September issue of the BSS Bulletin was posted to members at the beginning of this month. I hope yours has arrived by now - let me know if not.  As usual, an updated Contents list and an article for free download are on our website at  http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/b

Re: Visibly Moving Gnomon Shadows

2013-08-07 Thread JOHN DAVIS
--   Dr J Davis Flowton Dials From: Kevin Nute To: sundial@uni-koeln.de; Peter Ransom ; JOHN DAVIS Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 21:38 Subject: Visibly Moving Gnomon Shadows The movement of the gnomon shadow at the famous Samrat Yantra

Isle of Wight sundials

2013-08-04 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Dialling Colleagues, Those of you interested in sundials on the Isle of Wight (just off the coast of southern England) might like to look at the website of Elizabeth Hutchings at www.hutchings1776.talktalk.net/sundials . Elizabeth is an IoW resident and came to sundials quite late in life.

Re: Re azimuth lines

2013-08-04 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Frank E, As Frank K has said, your suggestion for reading azimuths with a polar-oriented gnomon and a set of declination lines (rather than with a nodus) is perfectly possible. But, in my experience, it would make the dial somewhere between very rare and unique as all the English examples I'

Re: azimuth lines

2013-08-01 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Frank et al, Dials with azimuth lines are rare but not unknown in the UK. Writing from memory, there is a rather nice one on Grundisburgh church near me and I believe the famous Queens' College, Cambridge, dial also has them amongst all the other furniture. There are a few others, I'm sure:

Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimal point.

2013-07-06 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi,   If you are working in Word, type the two characters one after the other. Then select to the first, go to Font>CharacterSpacing>Condensed and choose an amount (eg 12pt) to match the character size.   There are other Unicode characters which effectively give a backspace(or zero character spa

Re: sundial for a blind person

2013-07-03 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Brad,   There have been two articles on sundials for the blind in the BSS Bulletin:   Fer de Vries: 'A sundial for the blind', Bull 91.3, October 1991   A.A. Mills, P Stapleton & J Hennessy: 'Sundials for the blind' Bull 15(ii) June 2003.   As a BSS member, I presume that you either have these

BSS Bulletin

2013-06-05 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Dialling Colleagues,   The June issue of the BSS Bulletin has recently been dispatched to members. Should yours not reach you in a sensible time, please let me know.   As always, the running Contents list is on our website at http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/bulletin.php and there is a sample ar

Re: Man Wants heliochronometer

2013-05-24 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Kevin at all,   If you want really high resolution from a small solar timekeeper, try a dipleidoscope! They can resolve down to a second or two.   Regards,   John Dr J Davis Flowton Dials From: Kevin Karney kar...@me.com These dials are latitude adjustable, correctable

Very early equal-hours quadrant discovered

2013-04-24 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear colleagues,   Archaeologists in Zutphen, The Netherlands, have uncovered a copper-alloy quadrant marked for equal hours. Stratification of the layers is apparently indicating a date in the range 1300-1325 which, if true, predates the Richard II quadrants in the British Museum by around a ce

Re: Two sundial resources on the Internet

2013-04-21 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Wolfgang,   Thank you very much for these two links - most useful.  I am getting a problem with the second link, though: Google opens the journal for me but the pages on the Erfurt sundials are blank except for the message   "Sie haben entweder eine Seite erreicht, die nicht angezeigt werd

Re: Today's Google Banner - More

2013-04-15 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Frank,   The EoT might change sign on Euler's 306th birthday but I very much doubt (without checking!) that the changeover was the same on the date of his birth!   Regards,   John -- Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Mon, 15/4/13, Frank King w

RE: Sundial At Tower Court, Wellesley College

2013-03-31 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Sara,   Your idea of writing up the Wellesley College dial is a good one - I for one would like to know the full story and read your experiences.   The replica dial isn't a bad attempt (other than that awful gnomon!) and appears to have been hand engraved. But the details of the Equation of Ti

March BSS Bulletin

2013-03-04 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Colleagues,   The March issue of the BSS Bulletin has recently been distributed to members. As always, if yours doesn't arrive in a sensible time, please let me know.   The Contents list, together with a sample article for free download, is on http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/bulletin.php   Rega

BSS Bulletin - December

2012-12-01 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Dialling Colleagues,   The December issue of the BSS Bulletin has recently been dispatched to members. If yours doesn't arrive in a sensible time, please let me know.   As usual, the contents are listed on our website, http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/bulletin.php and there is also one article f

Re: St. Margareth

2012-08-01 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Bill,   I believe the lines on the dials are described by the designer (Chris Daniel, the BSS President) as being 'platinum', and the blue colour as 'enamelled' - I'm not sure if these are forms of 'gilding' and 'vitreous enamel', respectively.   Regards,   John --

Re: A Nodebox Sundial (for Macintosh users - only)

2012-07-15 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Kevin,   That looks very good - I'll certainly be interested to see it in bronze.   >From memory, there are two dials at Ham House - which is this an "almost exact >clone" of? Regards,   John - Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Sat, 14/7/12, Kevin

Re: Moore Sundial stolen

2012-07-13 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Josef et al,   Thanks for that link. The theft of the sundial made yesterdays TV news here in East Anglia - perhaps the first time a sundial has featured there (and for all the wrong reasons...).   It is worth pointing out that the dial which was stolen was a small-scale replica of the large

Re: making a compass

2012-07-08 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi John B,   Your suggestion of using a piece from the mainspring of a clock for a compass needle is quite a good one - I have done this. It needs to be tempered by heating and then allowed to cool slowly first. However, the disadvantage is that the material tends to be rather thinner than is id

Re: making a compass

2012-07-05 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Jackie et all,   An interesting question! I have made compasses for replica dials and found it more difficult than I expected. If you want a quick answer, it would be to buy a cheap compass and pull it apart so that you can re-case it and make an appropriate compass card but keep the same nee

June BSS Bulletin

2012-06-14 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Dialling Colleagues,   The June issue of the BSS Bulletin was dispatched a couple of weeks ago so all members should have received their copy by now.   As usual, the complete contents list can be found on the BSS website, www.sundialsoc.org.uk together with one article available as a pdf for

RE: sundials and tower clocks

2012-05-17 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Andrew et al,   There is a picture of about 9 of the dials from Scottish lighthouses lined up on a wall (just before their sale in 1997) in BSS Bulletin 11(i), p. 49, February 1999.   The story of the Bath Pump Room Tompion dial has been in the Bulletin too - all (sundial) life is there!   Re

re: sundials and tower clocks

2012-05-16 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Frank et al,   Thank you for the extract from the General Order for lighthouse dials. The thing which surprises me is that it is the EoT value engraved on the sundial that is being taken as the correction figure, rather than one for the date in question published in the current Nautical Alm

Re: Does anyone have contact details, for Brian Main ?

2012-04-22 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Linda,   I have a telephone number but not an email for Brian Main (contact me off-list).   I believe that the dial was made to a design from Modern Sunclocks. The two rings of hour numbers are for GMT and BST (give or take the EoT correction). Otherwise, it is a standard analemmatic dial.  

March Bulletin

2012-02-28 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Dialling Collegues,   The March issue of the BSS Bulletin has recently been distributed to members. Please let me know if yours does not arrive in a sensible period.   As usual, the Contents list, and a sample article for free download, is on the BSS website at http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/b

Re: Georg of Peuerbach

2012-02-15 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Roger et al,   I don't think the later middle ages were quite as dark in Europe as you suggest. Science did make some progress (eg the 'Merton calculators') despite the disruptions of the various plagues.   For example, the monk Robert Stikford, working at St Alban's Abbey (not far from Oxf

RE: Equinoctial vs. Equatorial

2012-02-15 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Jim, Sara et al,   I agree with Sara that the terms 'equatorial dial' and 'equinoctial dial' are synonymous. I believe that the reason we have two terms is purely historical. English diallists writing in the 16th & 17th centuries were looking back at armillary spheres which represented the

Re: Sundial and the Leap Second

2012-01-20 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Moss or John Davis dial? The caption "...rendering sundials useless" is a little over the top in my view! The impression I get is that the Canadians, the Chinese and the British are in favour of keeping leap seconds but the French, German and U.S. authorities want to get rid of them. W

Re: Headline: Second Oldest British Horological Instrument Found inAustralia

2011-12-05 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi JM,   Interesting indeed. It's a shame, though, that the statue shows Champlain holding the astrolabe from below, rather than suspended!   John D - Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Mon, 5/12/11, J M wrote: From: J M Subject: Re: Headline: Second

September Bulletin

2011-08-25 Thread JOHN DAVIS
), together with a sample article for free download.   Regards,   John Davis BSS Editor - Dr J Davis Flowton Dials--- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial

Re: Question on a possible sundial.

2011-08-20 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Frans et al,   I think the device looks like a long-working-distance microscope, positioned to allow observation of the details of the flowers or the insects that land on them!   Regards,   John - Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Fri, 19/8/11, Frans W. Maes wrote:

June BSS Bulletin

2011-06-07 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Colleagues,   The June issue of the BSS Bulletin has now been dispatched to members - please let me know if yours doesn't arrive in a sensible time.   As always, the extended list of Contents for all issues and a free downloadable article from this latest issue are on the BSS website at www.

Re: Two Prehistoric Portable Sundials?

2011-04-14 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Mike et al,   I investigated these pictures some months ago, when they were first posted. I thought they might make a worthwhile, if speculative, article. The finder, though helpful, was unable to give any sensible information and, although not a sundial expert of any kind, had labelled the

Re: Ben Franklin's Sundial Coin

2011-04-13 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi John C et al,   Here in England, 'Mind your business' (or 'Go about your business') is a not uncommon sundial motto - there is one on a vertical church dial from the 1700s not far from where I live. I wonder if Franklin saw one of them?   Regards,   John D -

Re: The sundial goes to war

2011-04-11 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Jim et al,   I think the item here is a draft of an article due to appear in the June issue of the BSS Bulletin. The author has 'jumped the gun'!   Regards,   John BSS Editor -- Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Mon, 11/4/11, J. Tallman wrote: From: J. T

BSS Bulletin contents

2011-04-06 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Colleagues,   The online contents list of the BSS Bulletin has just been updated and now includes one more article for free download. Go to: http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/bulletin.htm Regards,   John -- Dr J Davis Flowton Dials-

Re: sundial on sale

2011-03-17 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Fabio et al,   Thank you for posting this. It is a dial with an interesting provenance and will be described in a detailed article in the June issue of the BSS Bulletin. Book you copy now!   Regards,   John Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Thu, 17/3/11, Fabio Savi

BSS Bulletin on DVD

2011-03-11 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Dialling Colleagues,   The British Sundial Society is pleased to announce that the full run of BSS Bulletins, from the start of the Society in 1989 until September 2010 (a total of 75 issues) is now available on a DVD-R.   The cost of the DVD to BSS members is £25 +p&p. It may also be purcha

Re: A 14th century sundial question from France.

2011-03-09 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Bill (and other dialling colleagues),   The data that you show looks very similar to the Venerable Bede's shadow length tables (though the values are slightly different). This gives the length of a person's shadow on the assumption that their height is equal to six of their own feet (tall peo

Re: Google's Art Project and dialling

2011-02-04 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Kratzer's 'strange' instrument in The Ambassadors is described in some detail in Peter Drinkwater's self-published 1993 booklet "The Sundials of Nicholas Kratzer". The item is shown disassembled and, as Drinkwater shows, is either faulty or inaccurately drawn.   Regards,   John -

Re: BRASS ETCHING W/PHOTO RESIST

2010-12-08 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi John,   Glad to hear of someone in the USA doing photo-etching of dials. Do let us see your results in due course.   As a quick point, the dry film photoresist frothat Tony Moss mentioned is a three-layer (polythene-resit-mylar) structure. They don't actually make it themselves - I suspe

Re: A giant non-dial for Milton Keynes??

2010-10-15 Thread JOHN DAVIS
articles, by John Wall and Roger Bowling. Full references to anyone interested...   Regards,   John Davis --- Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Fri, 15/10/10, Tony Moss wrote: From: Tony Moss Subject: A giant non-dial for Milton Keynes?? To: "Sundial Mailing

75th Bulletin again

2010-09-10 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Colleagues,   Oops - I hit return too soon! The address should have been www.sundialsoc.org.uk.   Regards,   John - Dr J Davis Flowton Dials--- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial

75th BSS Bulletin

2010-09-10 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Dialling Colleagues,   I'm pleased to announce that the September issue of the BSS Bulletin, which has just been distributed to members, is our 75th edition. As usual, a list of the contents is available on our website www.sundialsoc.og.uk, as well as a sample article for free download. If

Denis Schneider

2010-08-11 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Colleagues,   I am trying to make contact with the French diallist Denis Schneider and the email address I have been given doesn't work. Does anyone have an up-to-date address, please?   Regards,   John --- Dr J Davis Flowton Dials

Jose Luis Basanta

2010-05-26 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Dialling Colleagues,   Does anyone have an email address for Snr. don Jose Luis Basanta Campos, the Spanish diallist, please? I have a postal address but I'm hoping for a more convenient communication.   Regards,   John --- Dr J Davis Flowton Dials---

Re: The first printed english gnomonical books on line!

2010-02-13 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Nicola,   You're a hero!  What a wonderful treasure trove of material. Thank you very much indeed.   John -- Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Sat, 13/2/10, nicolasever...@libero.it wrote: From: nicolasever...@libero.it Subject: The first pr

Re: Copyright query

2009-11-16 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi Tony,   The same Egyptian dials appear in Hester Higton's Sundials - an illustrated history.. The credit she gives is to Aegyptisches Museum, Berlin, no. 19743 and 19744.   Regards,   John D -- Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Sun, 15/11/09, Tony Moss wrot

RE: Analemma origins.

2009-11-15 Thread JOHN DAVIS
rmichael Subject: RE: Analemma origins.To: "'JOHN DAVIS'" Cc: "'sundial'" Date: Sunday, 15 November, 2009, 18:40 Hi John D:   You said: <)? I haven't been able to find one prior to 1900 though I feel there must be one somewhere.   Take a look at t

Re: Analemma origins.

2009-11-15 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Frank et al,   I'm tempted to digress further.. When was the first graphical - Cartesian - representation of the EoT on a real sundial (date as the x-axis and EoT on the y-axis)? I haven't been able to find one prior to 1900 though I feel there must be one somewhere.   Re questions on the r

Re: Dials and clocks

2009-10-19 Thread JOHN DAVIS
an Baths. It is certainly an appropriate dial but its provenance is uncertain.   Whatever the case, it is good to have a Tompion clock and dial so close together.   Regards,   John Davis -- Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Mon, 19/10/09,

September Bulletin

2009-09-05 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Colleagues,   The September issue of the BSS Bulletin has recently been mailed out - please let me know if yours doesn't arrive (assuming you're a member, of course!).   As usual, the contents are listed on the Bulletin page at www.sundialsoc.org.uk and there is one article available for fre

Augusta dial

2009-08-30 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear All, (especially in America),   Anyone know anything about this dial?:   http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/6765882.html   Regards,   John - Dr J Davis Flowton Dials--- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinf

Re: Dutch sundial

2009-08-26 Thread JOHN DAVIS
s. Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Tue, 25/8/09, Willy Leenders wrote: From: Willy Leenders Subject: Re: Dutch sundial To: "JOHN DAVIS" Cc: sund...@rrz.uni-koeln.de Date: Tuesday, 25 August, 2009, 8:19 PM I made a page concerning this sundial on my website. In Dutch language, but the

Dutch sundial

2009-08-25 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear colleagues (especially in the Netherlands)   Can anyone tell me anything about the sundial referred to in this extract from a tourist website:    Follow the canal to the right until just after Kattenhage, where you can escape the city’s post-war urbanity in the Prinsenhoftuin (Princes’ Court

Re: Isaack Symmes 17th Century Sundial

2009-06-08 Thread JOHN DAVIS
ls that I have collected over the years and I would be very interested to see a picture of yours off-list, particularly showing the gnomon.   Regards,   John Davis Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Mon, 8/6/09, barnar...@aol.com wrot

BSS Bulletin - June 2009

2009-06-06 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Colleagues,   The June issue of the BSS Bulletin has recently been dispatched to members - if your does not arrive in a sensible time, please let me know.   As usual, the Contents list is on the BSS website (www.sundialsoc.org.uk and follow the links to The Bulletin) and one sample article i

Re: The Eternal Sundial

2009-05-11 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Hi John et al,   I think the 'spiral dial' is probably a clever bit of photoshopping of the normal vertical dial in the same photostream!   Regards,   John D Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Mon, 11/5/09, John Carmichael wrote: From: John Carmichael Subject

Re: New equatorial dial

2009-03-18 Thread JOHN DAVIS
f the EoT cam.   Regards,   John Davis BSS Editor - Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Wed, 18/3/09, Mike Isaacs wrote: From: Mike Isaacs Subject: New equatorial dial To: "sundial" Date: Wednesday, 18 March, 2009, 10:11 AM Dear All, The curre

Experimental Method for Earth Radius

2009-03-01 Thread JOHN DAVIS
Dear Dialling Colleagues,   I'm forwarding this message from another mailing list as I believe it may be of interest to all sun-watchers. Mathematicians amongst you might like to work out the details of the 'fudge factor'.   Regards,   John --- Dr J Davis Flow

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