Unfortunately I have not been able access these songs as Windows Media player is
denanding a license to play it, am I doing something very silly?
Terry
Hi Tony,
Continuing this off topic thread, thanks for posting the link. I enjoyed the
animated version of Elements. I have posted some of my
I too have seen this technique used over the past four or five years. The son
of a friend was busy developing the technique with his company then. Such
pieces have been commonly sold as paperweights and ornamental pieces for quite a
while.
In fact last year there was a company in a local
Hi all,
With all respect to those who have commented on the subject of the 1939
inscription in the Place de la Concorde, Paris I'm not sure if this
contribution will add to the debate on the inscription or not but I have been
doing a little, very superficial, research on the subject and have
Hear, hear. Well said.
Regards
Terry D
Quoting Mac Oglesby [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello friends,
I applaud Daniel Roth's change, but hope that list members will take
the trouble to Cc the list with anything that is sundial related.
Best wishes,
Mac Oglesby
Dear
Sorry Bill,
I didn't mean to impugn your veracity. But what does a book out of print
published on the internet have to do with the argument? I'm rather puzzled
about that???
No one mentioned publishing copyrighted work such as books onto the internet
but there is a very grey area about
Thanks Giovanni for your advice and offer but I have now managed to download
the program via the PC World link by another sundialler.
Agin thanks for the offer it was very kind.
Terry
Quoting Giovanni Bellina [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to log on to the site
I tried to log on to the site quoted and get an error message. Does anyone
know if there is a problem with it?
Terry
Quoting Giovanni Bellina [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I use WinHTTrack Website Copier - www.httrack.com - and it works well
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from previous generations had bee lost
by not putting them into libraries, that is unthinkable as is losing much of
the internet content.
Terry Dixon
Quoting Bill Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Looking at the indiscriminate capturing of websites from the server's
standpoint, please be sure
Hi All,
It's been another fascinating year reading the comments, tips and wonderful
thories and concepts on the list. It has also been wonderful watching John's
stained glass website grow and mature, fantastic job.
I'd just like to thank you all and wish you seasons greetings be it
Quoting Patrick Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
.. The older version of the word draughtsman -
which, I agree was thought to have associations with the common -man suffix
is of course the name for the pieces in the very old game of Draughts
('Checkers' I think you call it now in the
Thanks John,
I do Lloyd's use of Art Deco and triangles in his designs, Mackintosh also
did the same, but a little earlier, I like his work as he spanned the Art
Nouveau and Art Deco periods so influentially. There is a very nice
programme running on UK satellite TV at the moment showing a
John,
As an amateur, occasional contributor, I would also like to thank you for
putting so much effort into producing such an inspiring site.
Two of my other inspirations are Architect/designers Renee Makintosh and F L
Wright. I am considering designing and building a stained glass sundial
All,
Here is an extract from 'The Radio Times' for 10 Saturday 13 December 2003.
'New sundials are being erected everywhere, including Mars,
where, from 4 January 2004, NASA will measure the Martian day
with a sundial designed by artists and children, as well as
astronomers.At the Basildon
Richard,
The planes of your 'Barley sugar' appears to twist by about 90 degrees, is
that so?
Terry
- Original Message -
From: Richard Hollands [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sundial sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: Dial design
Hello all,
I've
Richard,
The planes of your 'Barley sugar' appears to twist by about 90 degrees, is
that so?
Terry
- Original Message -
From: Richard Hollands [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sundial sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: Dial design
Hello all,
I've
Hi Willy,
I don't understand your translation of the phrase. Where do you get 'east'
from? From what I remember of my schoolboy French the word for 'east'
is 'est'. Further:
levant = raising (verbe);or
levant = rising (adjectif, adverbe);
surgir = to arise (verbe).
nord = north (adjectif,
The Book is out of print according to Amazon but Praxis still list it at I
think around 45 dollars.
You might also find this interesting:
http://www.surveyhistory.org/the_dividing_engine.htm
This came from a Google search. If you need to divide a circle accurately,
Engineers use a clever
I have seen some decorative floors made from coloured linoleum. This material
is now available in a wide range of colours, from pale pastels to dark rich
shades (unlike the traditional drab brown).
The floors are made rather like marquety or stained glass windows, by
sraftsmen cutting
The window would surely sag if it were made flat and then hung horizontally
without support. However could it not be made as a very slight dome, ie
raised in the centre. It could then be mounted in a fixed frame.
The forces involved would try to flatten the piece but the frame would prevent
Quoting John Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello Glassers.
I was thinking that it might be possible to have a stained glass sundial
window in the ceiling of a room. The metal rod gnomon would be attached to
the outside of the window,
Is it not possible to hang the Gnomon from the
Try this
http://www.dfly.com/download2.html
Quoting Rod Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
** High Priority **
Hi all,
I can't get the link to www.theglasseye.com to work. Is anyone else
having problems with this link.
Thanks,
This mail sent
Dear Tony please include me in your mailing list.
Regards
Terry Dixon
Fellow shadow watchers,
Further to my recent email following Peter Mayer's
resurrection of my previous comments on the etching process I've located
the jpegs of my home-made etching machine
Quoting Steve Turley [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've heard the explanation below many times and it sounds
very
logical.
For many years, however, the port side was called
larboard. What is
the
derivation of that term? I've heard that the British Navy
pioneered
the
use of port to avoid confusion
- Original Message -
From: Tim Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: Conference Travel Tip
[John]
port (right) side of the airplane
[Patrick]
But the port side is the left (when looking toward the front). Can you
Hi There,
regarding the cutting of a thin silicone adhesive layer to
free a sundial.
I don't think that a thin plain wire would do the job as
silicone is more tenacious than cheese. Further I don't
think that the use of a wire saw as used by campers (or a
diamond dust swa) is advisable as
I've been following the discourse on 'Nought at noon' and
this has reminded me of an anomoly which has puzzled me for
years.
In my school technology course we undertake a project on
time and so we get a lot of clocks and sundials which the
students design and make.
A question I am often
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