the cathedral. The cost is 5 euro (around 5 US $)
Probably it can be asked also at the address [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Publisher " VENERANDA FABBRICA DEL DUOMO" - 2001
Carlo Ferrari dal Passano - Carlo Monti - Luigi Mussio
La meridiana solare del Duomo di Milano - 25 pag. - 10 photos
There is a publication titled:
Carlo Ferrari Dda Passano - Carlo Monti - Luigi Mussio
LA MERIDIANA SOLARE DEL DUOMO DI MILANO
Verifica e ripristino nell'anno 1976
The editor is "VENERANDA FABBRICA DEL DUOMO"
In my opinion it is a good publication rather complete.
The "Venerand
ert Terwilliger
> To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 2:21 PM
> Subject: RE: duomo di Milano
>
>
> There is one excellent site on the NASS links page which has photographs
> of pinhole projections of the sun on various meridians during
-- Original Message -
From:
Robert
Terwilliger
To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 2:21 PM
Subject: RE: duomo di Milano
There is one excellent site on the NASS links page which has photographs of pinhole projections of the sun on various meridians
at least), through the Archive. If you use the Wayback Machine
( http://archive.org ) and search for
http://www.teklab.it/utenti/vaccaro/DefaultE.htm
you will find the top level, in English. The major subpages have live
links to Archive files, and the one Bill referenced above is the first of
t
The book " The sun in the church" Cathedrals as solar observatories by Dr.
J. L. Heilbron is available from half.com for only $9.95. Excellent value
for the technical and historical background to the meridians in the medieval
cathedrals.
http://half.ebay.com/search/search.jsp?nthTime=1&product=boo
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Bill Thayer wrote:
The English-language site, which was at
>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2001/page10E.htm
> was a translation of the Italian-language original, which was at
> http://www.teklab.it/utenti/vaccaro/default.htm
> and both are, as you say, now
Title: RE: duomo di Milano
There used to be another excellent
page on meridians but it vanished in September of 2002. The
title was:
The great meridian of Santa Maria
degli Angeli The site was hosted by geocities.
Does anyone know who was responsible
for this site? Or how it might be
Title: Message
There is one excellent site on the NASS links page which has photographs of pinhole projections of the sun on various meridians during the solar
eclipse of 1996.http://www.nauticoartiglio.lu.it/almanacco/Aa_ecli_13.ht
There used to be another excellent page on
meridians but it
If I read Heilbron's book correctly, pages 266 to 272, the meridiane was
designed by Giovanni Angelo Cesaris in the 1780's. His superiors wanted to
be able to fix the time of noon and supress the old custom of telling time
by Italian hours which depended on the time of sunset, and the length of th
Fred Jaggi
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From: "heiner thiessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sundials Mail List"
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 3:32 PM
Subject: duomo di Milano
> Many yers ago I witnessed in the
> cathedral of Milan the spectacle of
> a small circle of
Hello Heiner,
In 1836 the Belgian minister of home affairs laid down by law that the
most
principal cities in Belgium should have a meridian dial.
So it was possible for all citizens, by means of an easy calculation, to
adjust their watches to the local time of Brussels, capital of Belgium.
The
Many yers ago I witnessed in the
cathedral of Milan the spectacle of
a small circle of light, projected by a ray of
sunshine onto the marble floor and
travelling at some considerable speed across
the vast floor space.
I suppose this would have been a meridian dial
but I was not into dialling a
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