Re: The Sundial of Augustus: help please?

1999-04-06 Thread fer j. de vries
Bill Thayer wrote: > > Dear gnomonists and experts all, > > I've just put up a page -- no drawings, maps or figures yet -- on the > Horologium Augusti, the great sundial set up by Augustus in Rome using an > Egyptian obelisk as a gnomon: as viewed by Samuel Platner, the 1929 author > of a classi

The Sundial of Augustus: help please?

1999-04-05 Thread Bill Thayer
Dear gnomonists and experts all, I've just put up a page -- no drawings, maps or figures yet -- on the Horologium Augusti, the great sundial set up by Augustus in Rome using an Egyptian obelisk as a gnomon: as viewed by Samuel Platner, the 1929 author of a classic archaeological reference work, t