My thanks to those who responded to my puzzled request concerning the
Italian dial on the church at San Gimignano. In the end Frans Maes
cleared it up by revealing that the dial is no more than an artist's
construction, albeit with some meaning. It is not gnomonic, though.
Frank 55N 1W
If one draws a line connecting like hours on the dial on this page:
http://www.btinternet.com/~noahshouse/solarcast/moondial.htm
arcs curving to the left are created. They aren't concentric circles exactly, but without seeing an image of the dial, that's the best I can come up with. (As you
: Sunday, August 08, 2004 2:37 PM
Subject: italian dial
Greetings fellow dialists,
Can anyone please help me to decipher this: I have been sent a picture,
by a friend, of an Italian presumed dial on the wall of Sant' Agostino
church in San Gimignano, Tuscany. It has a horizontal gnomon which
Can anyone please help me to decipher this: I have been sent a picture,
by a friend, of an Italian presumed dial on the wall of Sant' Agostino
church in San Gimignano, Tuscany. It has a horizontal gnomon which is a
simple shaft. Around it are drawn eight circles which are not concentric
but
@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Subject: italian dial
Greetings fellow dialists,
Can anyone please help me to decipher this: I have been sent a picture,
by a friend, of an Italian presumed dial on the wall of Sant' Agostino
church in San Gimignano, Tuscany. It has a horizontal gnomon which is a
simple shaft. Around
