Dear Noam, I have see in the archeological site of Pompei several roman sundials that I described in my digital book "De Monumentis Gnomonicis apud Graecos et Romanos", 2005. One of this sundials have the original gnomon inclined on the horizon like the north pole axe. This is a very unusual thing in the Roman Era, but we cannot sure on the use of sundials with polar axe gnomon. The museum of archaeological site of Pompei sured me about the original gnomon of this sundials. It was not replaced in the modern time. It is possible that in Pompei several things are conserved complete (whole) and the roman sundials from Pompei are those best conserved today. The theory of this sundials was described very well from prof. Manfred Huttig from Wolfenbuttel and another great author, Jean Kragten, from The Zonnerwijzerkring magazine of Fer de Vries. The best regards, Nicola Severino
---------- Initial Header ----------- >From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date : Tue, 15 May 2007 14:25:18 +0300 Subject : Greek and Roman sundials > Does anyone know if the Greek and Roman sundials would in actuality show what > they are theoretically supposed to show in term of the unequal hours? The > gnomon was either horizontal or vertical, not on an angle. > > > Thanks, > Noam Kaplan > ------------------------------------------------------ Passa a Infostrada. ADSL e Telefono senza limiti e senza canone Telecom http://click.libero.it/infostrada --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
