Many thanks to all of you who replied to the question about owls and
sundials. I was surprised by all the info you found!
I forwarded all your letters (all twelve of them) to Ohio State University.
John
From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On
Behalf Of
Frank,
I do not know if your comment was meant to be funny or serious.
In every way a Dutch lesson:
'wijzer' has two meanings:
1. 'indicator' or 'hand' (of a clock)
2. comparative of 'wijs' (wise - wiser)
In my reply I used the second meaning to ridicule the relation between sundial
and owl
In
And I think Frank might be having us on with the owla
interpretation. More likely the owls around Hughes Hall descend from
the college's crest/shield:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Hall%2C_Cambridge?wasRedirected=true
.
-- Richard Langley
Sent from my iPod Touch
On 2010-11-19, at
Dear All,
Yes, I was having you on by backing up
Willy Lenders's witty translation of
zonnewijzer. Willy and Chris Lusby
Taylor have provided the more usual
explanation.
I wasn't having you on about Hughes
Hall though! Richard Langley is right
that the college arms incorporates two
owls but
Dear All,
I have a small booklet about the Owl Sundial at Little Melton First School
(Norfolk, England). They used an owl on their sundial as a symbol of wisdom
and as it is often used as a caricature of a school teacher. It was
constructed in 2000 and the owl's beak is the gnomon. The
I'm for Harriet's interpretation Athene, her owl and the meaning of gnomon
K
On 19 Nov 2010, at 16:03, Brad Lufkin wrote:
I suspect there's no relationship. The publishers of the humor magazine were
probably making an oblique reference to the owl of Athena, which is a symbol
of wisdom.
Ronald Zurcher wrote:
Dear Sundial experts,
I was given your address by Mr. Morrison whose name I also found in the web.
My name is Monique Thoen and I am a practicing architect in San Jose, Costa
Rica. We are currently working on a park project located in Fortaleza,
Brazil (south
