It's a lectern sundial at Culzean Castle in Ayrshire.
RegardsDennis CowanWww.sundialsofscotland.co.uk
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Date: 25/09/2017 22:10 (GMT+00:00) To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: location
query
Can anyone tell me the loc
Can anyone tell me the location in Scotland of this sundial?
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From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of David
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 11:20 AM
To: sundial
Subject: Rare sundial book query
Dear fellow shadow-watchers,
David,
See: www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B009NMD7T2/ref=nosim/1557
Best regards,
Frans Maes
On 10-11-2014 17:19, David wrote:
/Hebrew and Greek Scriptures compared with Oriental History/
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Dear fellow shadow-watchers,
I have been told about a book entitled:
/The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures compared with Oriental History,
Dialling, Science, and Mythology/
by Rev. William Hewson published by Simpkin & Co in London in 1870.
Can anyone give me some idea of the value of this book,
Hi all,
In my recent email I suggested that the colour picture of two
ancient Eqyptian Sundials in Mark Lennox-Boyd's book were sourced via
the British Library but this was a simple mistaken reading of the
closely-printed acknowledgements page. On looking again I see that the
German
Moss wrote:
From: Tony Moss
Subject: Copyright query
To: "Sundial Mailing List"
Date: Sunday, 15 November, 2009, 14:16
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
For a commercial PowerPoint
presentation currently in preparation I would like to include a
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
For a commercial PowerPoint
presentation currently in preparation I would like to include a picture
of two Egyptian altitude dials (Tuthmosis III Egyptian) which appear on
page 15 of 'Sundials History, Art, People, Science' by M
Sorry, I was in a hurry yesterday morning so I sent this only to Tony. And
as it turned out, there were some problems when I tried to send it to the
list. Trying again today.
I am not enclosing the file as I do not have time to follow up if the file
don't get through the mailing system.
These a
Tony,
I didn't see the solution of Anne Bruvold on this
list. Could you let us know what his solution was?
Thibaud
At 14:15 25-08-2008, Tony Moss wrote:
Hi All,
Many Thanks for the prompt responses to my query. Anne
Bruvold in
Tromsø wins this gold medal with a simple and el
Hi All,
Many Thanks for the prompt responses to my query. Anne
Bruvold in
Tromsø wins this gold medal with a simple and elegant solution.
Our W O N D E R F U L SML does its job once again.
Tony Moss.
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I have been asked by the historian, Professor Rosemary Cramp, to comment
on her suggestion that the mass dial on Lullington Church, Somerset,
England, may be Anglo-Saxon.
The dial is typical of many mass dials. It is cut directly into the
building stone without a dial plate. It is in the for
:30 N long. 5:30 E
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From: "tony moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sundial Mail List"
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 6:29 PM
Subject: Instrument query.
> Fellow Shadow Watchers,
>Can anyone direct me to a cle
Hi all,
My previous query should have been for a BORDA Repeating Circle.
Apologies for the typo'
Tony Moss.
P.S. I already have a copy of Ken Alder's wonderful book "The Measure of
All Things' which is how my interest in this ingenious device arose.
-
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
Can anyone direct me to a clear photograph of a
'Barda Repeating Circle' please? i.e. A modern picture of an actual
instrument rather than a photo-repro' of a contemporary engraving etc.
which I have already. More detail of the scales and mechani
Larry Bohlayer wrote:
>
>There is a bug in Adobe Illustrator when working between version 9 and other
>versions in Illustrator itself that relates to the ATTRIBUTE settings for
>curve "flatness." This attribute setting has its own pallet under the Window
>menu item. On the pallet, set the output v
r software, but it controls the same characteristic in the curve
interpretation.
Larry Bohlayer
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From: "Tony Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sundial Mail List"
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 5:43 AM
Subject: Query
> Fellow Shadow
controlled machining softwares. Hope this helps!
Edley
Subject:Query
Date sent: Wed, 11 Dec 02 10:43:37 +
From: Tony Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sundial Mail List"
Send reply to: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.d
In a message dated 12/11/2002 5:49:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I would be delighted to receive any comments or suggestions from any
> cognoscenti in these matters.
Tony, I too had some problems with sending .dxf files for waterjet cutting.
Some circles made in
ucson Arizona 85718
USA
Tel: 520-696-1709
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com>
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From: "Tony Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sundial Mail List"
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:43 AM
Subj
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
I've recently been using a combination of Adobe
Illustrator 9.0 and a local waterjet cutting company to profile large
dial components in stainless steel. The first, a 4ft diameter indented
plate, proceeded flawlessly and so lulled me into a false
Fellow shadow watchers,
As their seem to be no more opinions
forthcomingThank You to Edley, Roger and Sarah for sharing their
thoughts on my recent query.
Tony Moss
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: September 18, 2002 2:52 PM
To: Sundial Mail List
Subject: Query
Subject: Repeat posting
Sent:17/9/02 1:21 PM
To: Sundial Mail List, sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Fellow Shadow watchers,
Apologies if you've seen this more than once - if at
all - bu
Hi Tony and all,
In an book I read from the library regarding the establishment of standard
longitude
measurements it was mentioned that at one time there were a great number of
contenders for zero meridian within the North American continent. I had heard
of
both Boston and Philadelphia at
>"but the arcane bit of knowledge I had never heard before was that
the man
>(name forgotten) who studied and then defined the "line" from which all
North
>American sundials are "calibrated" (if that is the word) had established
that
>geographic point in this city of Indianapolis."
I ha
Subject: Repeat posting
Sent:17/9/02 1:21 PM
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Fellow Shadow watchers,
Apologies if you've seen this more than once - if at all
- but for some reason I didn't receive a circulated version via the SML so hav
The North Star (Polaris) is 0.73 degrees from the true north celestial
pole. I would think that sighting on Polaris would be good enough for
aligning most sundials.
For those on the Sundial List, if greater accuracy were desired:
1. Take the average of two sightings 12 hours apart (when the
2/13/02
Aiming the gnomon at the north star is easier said than done, but will work
well. The North star is 0.5 degrees away from true north, and although this
is not perfect, it is good enough for all but the most precise dials. To
achieve perfect alignment, you can then use a free program c
Hello,
I am checking the facts in a garden article to be published soon, and
our writer says that in the Northern Hemisphere, you can find the
correct gnomon angle for your latitude by aiming the gnomon at the
North Star. I know you must align it with the earth's North/South
axis, but is si
Hi:
Roger wrote
> Determining that the sun
> had stopped its descent and had started to return with its life giving
> light, heat and energy was a critical event in most cultures. It is
> unfortunate that this has been lost in our modern cultures although solstice
> festivals still exis
of the sun.
Happy Solstice
Roger Bailey
Walking Shadow Designs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Schilke
Sent: December 18, 2001 3:26 PM
To: Sundial Mail List; Judy Young
Subject: Fw: Query about solstices
Greetings!
It occurred to me
Surely the whole business of finding the solstice is like a slower analogue
of finding noon by observing solar altitude?
Just around noon the altitude changes extremely slowly, and it is hardly
possible to judge the time of maximum altitude exactly. Here, today, noon
is at 12:04:49 but even if w
ubject: RE: Query about solstices
This topic got me wanting to get a piece of pipe and try it!
>From my new Sky software, which I'm just getting to know,
I found that solstice is at about 11:22 on the 21st. I
then got the declinations on the day before and after at this time. But
the sun chang
11:46 AM
To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Subject: Query about solstices
Greetings fellow dialists,
You don't have to have a clear sky on the actual day you are wishing to
mark sunrise or sunset. Martin Brennan in his book "The Stones of Time"
showed elegantly how the people at Newgran
Greetings fellow dialists,
You don't have to have a clear sky on the actual day you are wishing to
mark sunrise or sunset. Martin Brennan in his book "The Stones of Time"
showed elegantly how the people at Newgrange in Ireland did it five
thousand years ago with the rising solsticial sun shining
Yes, Fritz, my answers were along this line of thought. Do look at Judy
Young's neat reply.
Thanks,
John
>
> Just imagining... I would say you could find out when
> it WAS, but it would be quite impossible the first try.
> When the shadow deviated to within about a week of
> when you guess it mig
In case it didn't come through before, here is Judy Young's clear answer,
for which I am grateful.
John Schilke
>
> Dear John and the List,
>
> Thanks for the question. You are the second person to ask in 2
> days how to determine the day of the solstice, given the slow change in
> the Sun's decl
Thank you, and a merry Holiday round of Solstice and Christmas to you! This
is essentially what I had thought, but being from Oregon, I have misgivings
about whether the sun would break through the rain. We now are almost tied
with our record for consecutive rainy days -- some 29, I believe!
Ag
Greetings!
It occurred to me today that I probably do not fully understand something
that would be of interest to the List. Granted the difficulty of
determining the equinox, using only a dial or a Stonehenge-like ring (mainly
because of the rapid change in solar declination), I thought abou
Can anyone on the list help me find the correct email addresses for
Francesco Caviglia (Torino Italy) and
Please respond off-list. Thanks.
Fred Sawyer
D H Kim wrote:
>
> At present the Korean sundials are shown only in the Korean
> language web site but not in the foreign language web site.
> I'm starting the Korean sundial web site in English in the near weeks.
> Could anyone help me classifying the Korean sundial.
> I'm now attaching 3 jp
At present the Korean sundials are shown only in the Korean
language web site but not in the foreign language web site.
I'm starting the Korean sundial web site in English in the near weeks.
Could anyone help me classifying the Korean sundial.
I'm now attaching 3 jpg files,one for the public
Hello all
I'm new to the list and would like to pose a query for my 90 year old
neighbour.
He was in Berlin in 1945 and bought a pocket sundial because he thought it was
an object of curiosity. He knows nothing of astronomy or related topics. He
showed it to me and asked if I could fin
Tex,
The short answer is no.
For dials that have a gnomon that points at the North star, the EOT
correction is done by rotating the dial face around that shadow casting
edge of the gnomon. For your horizonal dial, imagine a rod welded at the
top edge of the gnomon. The ends of the rod are supp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> To anyone who might know:
>
> Living in Tucson, Arizona, which has more minutes of sunshine
> annually than any other spot in America, I became an amateur diallist a
> few years ago. I
> thought I'd put a question to you for your expert consideration.
> Fo
Tex Brashear wrote:
> ... What if, at the junction of the noon line and six-o-clock lines,
> we make a small hole...and then drive a tiny rod into that hole so that
> the dial plate pivots around that point on a base to which is attached?
> The point itself however, remains in the same position
To anyone who might know:
Living in Tucson, Arizona, which has more minutes of sunshine
annually than any other spot in America, I became an amateur diallist a
few years ago. I
thought I'd put a question to you for your expert consideration.
For some time I've wanted to build a horizon
Hello James!
IO NON ebro {about 30-35 letters missing}ans LANgU{about 10
missing}cARE
LA CAMPANO IL FERRO MA RISPLENDE SOLE
There is a motto that is often used in Ticino (italian speaking area,
south of Switzerland). It goes
Puo' ben errar della campana il ferro
Ma quando splende il sole io n
I am trying to decide what may have been the original of a sundial motto
of which about half is missing. It is in Italian and as far as I can
read it is
IO NON ebro {about 30-35 letters missing}ans LANgU{about 10 missing}cARE
LA CAMPANO IL FERRO MA RISPLENDE SOLE
where lower case is uncertain (
To all,
Would appreciate information as to how research the background of a
particular sundial. I am seeking information regarding a sundial
apparently made by James Botton (spelling per the face of the dial)
apparently of Brystol (? Bristol) England. The item was found in Boston,
Massachusetts US
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