book, "A Choice of sundials discusses the "Greek pelekinon sundial".
The shape of the hour and day lines suggest the bouble headed ax
found in Greece. On a recent trip to Greece I saw an ax of this type
in a museum in Macedonia.
Hope this helps a little bit.
Sure does; you've solved the my
Peter and other list members,
I haven't followed this discussion too closely. However, Dolan's book, "A Choice of sundials discusses the "Greek pelekinon sundial". The shape of the hour and day lines suggest the bouble headed ax found in Greece. On a recent trip to Greece I saw an ax of this t
repository of concensus information - som emay be bogus or just
plain silly, but a lot is helpful. Democracy at its best/worst, I
suppose...
If we ever get to the bottom of "plekhnaton" -- I'm convinced it's
bogus, but it's deucedly hard to prove a negative -- we should get
back in touch wi
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Peter Tandy wrote:
> For those who quoted from the 'Wikipedidia (never heard of it before -
> sounds like an encyclopedia written on a Hawaiian beach.but maybe I'd
> better not get into the oringin of THAT word!!), it appears, from memory,
> to be EXACTLY what Bill Nye use
Regards,
Albert FrancoPeter Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Shadow casters,Thank you to the 4-5 people who responded to my littlemessage/question/gripe about the use of the word "plekhnaton" - at least itseems to prove that I was not totally mistaken in my curiosity about it.Had 100+ peo
Dear Shadow casters,
Thank you to the 4-5 people who responded to my little
message/question/gripe about the use of the word "plekhnaton" - at least it
seems to prove that I was not totally mistaken in my curiosity about it.
Had 100+ people responded along the lines of "haven't you met that one
b
like any actual Greek I know.
Liddell & Scott's Greek Lexicon at Perseus
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform
is confirming me on it, listing no ancient Greek root *plech- or *plekh-.
Notice that this "plekhnaton" is suspect even to the volunteers who
run Wikipedia:
http://en.wiki
Quoted from a Google search of the encyclopedia Wikipedia:
Plekhnatons
The ancient Greeks used a type of sundial called a plekhnaton. The gnomon was a rod or pole upright in a horizontal face or half-spherical face. The shadow of the tip of the rod sweeps out hyperbolic curves on a flat face,
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>From: Peter Tandy
>To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003
11:32 AM
>Subject: Plekhnatons (slightly
off-topic)
>Dear Shadow watchers (if not shadowy types!)>A little
while ago, someone (can&
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From: "Peter Tandy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)
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Dear Shadow watchers (if not shadowy types!)
A little while ago, someone (can't remember who now) posted a report about
Martian sundials by Bill Nye. Several pages into it he refers to early
Greek sundials by the name Plekhnaton(s). I had never met this word before,
and wondered what it meant. By
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