Re: A short stay in Italy

2010-10-14 Thread Fabio Savian
- From: Tony Moss t...@lindisun.demon.co.uk To: Sundial Mailing List sundial@uni-koeln.de Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 5:40 PM Subject: A short stay in Italy Fellow Shadow Watchers, I shall be staying near Brescia in Lombardia for three days in mid

Re: A short stay in Italy

2010-10-14 Thread Frank King
Dear Fabio, You mention some reflection sundials... In the Convento di San Cristo you can find a reflection sundial... In Italy there are other four ancient reflection sundials ... in the provincia ... of Bergamo, beside the Brescia one. ... another one is in Palazzo Spada in Rome...

A short stay in Italy

2010-10-13 Thread Tony Moss
Fellow Shadow Watchers, I shall be staying near Brescia in Lombardia for three days in mid-November but with a hire car and a few spare hours to fill outside my visit to the Perazzi factory. Any suggestions for dials worth seeing in the area or local

Re: A short stay in Italy

2010-10-13 Thread Frank King
Dear Tony, You say... I shall be staying near Brescia in Lombardia... One thing you can do is to visit http://www.sundialsatlas.eu You then click on the map button at the top and, by dragging the map and zooming, home in on Brescia. Alas, there are no sundials shown in

AW: A short stay in Italy Brescia 24!

2010-10-13 Thread Reinhold Kriegler
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] Im Auftrag von Frank King Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2010 17:56 An: Tony Moss Cc: Sundial Mailing List Betreff: Re: A short stay in Italy Dear Tony, You say... I shall be staying near Brescia

Re: A short stay in Italy

2010-10-13 Thread Frans W. Maes
Dear Tony, The ITINERARIO ARTE SCIENZA: http://www.astrofilibresciani.it/Attivita/Attivita_Scuole/Tour_Astronomico.htm has several stops related to astronomy and sundials. Last year I downloaded an English version, but it seems that presently only the Italian version is available. I think you

Re: AW: A short stay in Italy Brescia 24! Frank 0!

2010-10-13 Thread Frank King
Dear Reinhold, Your news is good news... The Italian sundial catalogue announces 24 sundials for Brescia! My news is bad news... Alas, there are no sundials shown in Brescia itself... I think I should have punctuated my remark differently and added a t: Atlas: there are no sundials

Re: A short stay in Italy

2010-10-13 Thread Tony Moss
On 13/10/2010 16:55, Frank King wrote: Dear Tony, You say... I shall be staying near Brescia in Lombardia... One thing you can do is to visit http://www.sundialsatlas.eu You then click on the map button at the top and, by dragging the map and zooming, home in on

Re: A short stay in Italy

2010-10-13 Thread Tony Moss
On 13/10/2010 18:19, Frans W. Maes wrote: Dear Tony, The ITINERARIO ARTE SCIENZA: http://www.astrofilibresciani.it/Attivita/Attivita_Scuole/Tour_Astronomico.htm has several stops related to astronomy and sundials. Last year I downloaded an English version, but it seems that presently

Re: A short stay in Italy

2010-10-13 Thread Mario Arnaldi
one of the most known scientific instrument in Brescia is the famous Byzantine astrolab in the Civic Museums of Art and History (Musei civivi di Arte e Storia). The astrolab is dated back to the year 1062. Mario ---