In September 1999 during a journey in Austria, we have arrived, by chance, in the small city of Kremsmünster, near Linz, where a beautiful Benedictine Abbey, built in 1700,.is found.
Connected to the Abbey there is an astronomic tower that was originally used as an observatory for astronomical research and that is today a museum of astronomy. Here one can see an impressive number of astronomical observation instruments, including a sextant made of iron that was probably used by Johannes Kepler in Prague, a collection of pocket sundials, terrestrial and celestial globes, etc. P. Amand Kraml, the administrator of the museum, has collected in a CD the images of all the sundials that are in the museum and P. Ansgar Rabenalt has written (in German) a booklet containing a short description of each of them (70 pages) The CD is a very simple and doesn't contain any index. In its parts we find : - in the ROOT the file INDEX.HTM with a short presentation of the astronomic tower of the Abbey. - In NACHBAU : 3 photographs of a very famous diptych (in color) - In SONNUHR1 : 154 photographs of the about 100 sundials described in the booklet. All the images are in JPG format (about 1450 x 1450 pixels) very detailed. To visualize them it is necessary to use a program as Photoshop, ACDSee, etc. They are all in b/w (excluding # 74) The sundials are of many different types (almost all portable ) and are built in the period 1700-1900 - In DOBERSCH : 25 photographs of the pages of the manuscript " Gnomonica " written by the P. Laurenz Doberschitz in 1764. The CD is on sale and costs 360 AS (Austrian Shelligs) - about 25 US$ The booklet costs 100 AS (about 7.5 US $) plus the postage If someone has interested he can write to P. Amand Kraml asking other information on : - the CD-ROM Sonnenuhren - the book Nr. 33 - P. Ansgar Rabenalt - Die Sonnenuhrensammlung der Sternwarte Kremsmünster It is also on sale a CD containing the photos of the terrestrial and celestial globes that are in the museum (360 AS) : CD-ROM Globen For other information you can see at http://members.telecom.at/~stewar/ ADDRESS: P. Amand Kraml Sternwarte Kremsmünster KREMSMÜNSTER A-4550 AUSTRIA Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------- Gianni Ferrari
