Mario Arnaldi sent the link to the Epact site below. I wonder if everybody knows that you can click on the image on the Epact site and get a bigger image. You can then click on that image and get one that is even bigger!
Bob http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/catalogue.asp?enumber=77593&searchtext=sundial > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario Arnaldi > Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:02 PM > To: Sundial List > Subject: Re: Earliest Sundial > > > b) Portable dials (travel or table-top). > > I have not researched this question. Karl Schwarzinger sent me a > > pretty folder with color pictures of many beautiful > Austrian sundials. > > Among these is a folding dial ('Klappsonnenuhr') from 1451, > possibly > > made by Georg Peuerbach and now in the Kaiser Maximilian Museum in > > Innsbruck. Does anyone know of an older portable dial? > ------------------ > > maybe could be of some interest for Mike or others. I found > this page > http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/catalogue.asp?enumber=77593&sear > chtext=sundial > looking on the very interesting web site of EPACT, the > sundial is kept in the British Museum, but it is Austrian and > it is very similar to the one kept in Innsbruk, but is late > dated 1453... only two years late. > > Mario > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Mario Arnaldi > Via Cavour, 57c > 48100 Ravenna > Lat. 44° 25' N - Lon. 12° 12' E > Italy > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - > -
