Re: Article about Armenian sundials

2019-03-09 Thread Simon Wheaton Smith
Interesting physical as well as philosophical discussion about "inaccurate" dials. One possible bottom line is simply what did humans want from a time piece. It seems a mass dial or any other "inaccurate" device must have met their needs and thus was for them a valuable item. Religious meetings,

Re: Article about Armenian sundials

2019-03-02 Thread Frank King
Dear Willy, You say... > The Armenian sundials are more a building > ornament than an instrument to measure the > time. These are variants of the standard European sundials used for indicating 'unequal hours', at least approximately, in medieval times. Several thousand survive in England alone.

Re: Article about Armenian sundials

2019-03-02 Thread Willy Leenders
The Armenian sundials are more a building ornament than an instrument to measure the time. The sundial scene is divided into 20 or 24 parts at equal angles (ie of 18 or 15 degrees). The shadow of a gnomon will indicate different time periods depending on the date. Willy Leenders Hasselt in Flan

Article about Armenian sundials

2019-03-01 Thread koolish
This was sent to me by a friend. https://www.panorama.am/en/news/2019/02/23/Armenian-sundials/2076856 --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial