Re: Salvador Dal� and Sundials

2004-02-03 Thread Frans W. Maes
Hi Richard all, There is a picture of a Dali dial (:-) in the site of Andreas Hänel from Osnabrück (in German): http://www.physik.uni-osnabrueck.de/~ahaenel/sonnuhr/ Scroll to Spanien/Katalonien - Cadaques. It is dated 1966. Judging from the hour line pattern, the dial is east-declining by 60°

Re: Salvador Dal� and Sundials

2004-02-03 Thread Richard Langley
Thanks, Frans. It looks like Dalí's Paris dial was based on this one in Cadaqués, predating it by 2 years. I wonder if there are any other Dalí dials of the same style? And thanks for pointing out the Dalí anagram -- I had missed that. By the way, the small fishing village of Portlligat (the site

Salvador Dal� and Sundials

2004-02-02 Thread Richard Langley
While on a recent holiday in southern Florida, my wife and I visited the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/. Currently running is the exhibition Dalí Centennial: An American Collection which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dalí. One of the