Dear friends, I would like to introduce two very beautiful new books by Giovanni Paltrinieri to you:
The first one, just edited last week, is a magnificent Calendar-book. In our list very often calendar-questions were discussed during the past year. Even you don't speak Italian (like me) you will find a lot of interesting and useful details. The book is carefully illustrated; 329 pages. Giovanni Paltrinieri: Calendario Lunario, la misura del tempo dalla preistoria a oggi. Gruppo CALDERINI edacricole, Novembre 2000 ISBN-88-8219-375-6. L.49.000 The book also contains a fine extra-tool "Il perpetuo moto del Sole e della Luna" . The titles of the ten chapters are: 1. La misura del Tempo. 2. Le porzioni del giorno. 3. Artefici e instrumenti del tempo. 4. Il computo del Tempo. 5. Le categorie del Tempo. 6. I cicli. 7. Vari tipi di Calendario. 8. La Luna e i suoi influssi. 9. Il Calendario dei Santi. 10. Il Calendario dei proverbi. Everybody who is interested in calendar questions should not miss to buy this beautiful book! The other book was recently published and was presented during the last meeting of the Italian sundial society in San Benedetto: Gian Domenico Cassini, LA MERIDIANA DEL TEMPIO DI S. PETRONIO IN BOLOGNA Premessa di Giordano Berti, Introduzione e trascrizione di Giovanni Paltrinieri. Arnaldo Forni Editore, 2000 The very beautiful book is carefully edited and includes two maps of the Meridian Eustachio Zanotti and Gian Domenico Cassini. A must for everybody who loves these giant old sundials! Cordiali saluti Reinhold Kriegler * ** *** **** ***** ****** ******* Reinhold R. Kriegler lat. 53° 07 N long. 8° 54' E Kopernikusstraße 125, D-28357 Bremen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
