Hi Jackie, I love your little portable sundials they look great. I have a passion for portable sundials as they don’t need winding just the sun.
A comment with regard to your website. The instructions are great but are not correct for Australia, here the sun is to the North. Have you sold any portable sundials for the southern hemisphere? Regards, Roderick Wall. From: Jackie Jones Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 10:47 PM To: 'Len Berggren' ; 'Schechner, Sara' Cc: 'Sundial List' Subject: RE: Where are the women? Hi all, And me; I have posted a few comments on the site. I am otherwise rather busy being membership secretary of the British Sundial Society as well as also making small silver dials – www.silversundials.co.uk. I also painted a large dial on the front of our house; a task many people thought my husband did. Don’t women climb scaffolding? I think I am also correct that of the last 4 BSS sundial design competitions, 3 have been won by women. Best wishes Jackie Jackie Jones 50° 50’ 09” N. 0° 07’ 40” W. PS How about more folk telling us where they are? From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Len Berggren Sent: 10 March 2011 23:46 To: Schechner, Sara Cc: Sundial List Subject: Re: Where are the women? As Sara points out, it is certainly false that there are no women actively engaged with sundials. But it is true that few women participate in the dialogues on our list. And it is also true that men are much more in evidence as active dialists (as opposed to long-suffeing spouses of dialists!) at the meetings of national societies that I have attended. It would be interesting to know, however, what percentages of the membership of various national sundial societies are women. Whatever the numbers I would certainly not draw any inferences from them about the procilivity of either sex for abstract thinking. But the results might get us thinking what we could do to encourage women to participate. Do women members of the list have any thoughts on this? -Len Berggren On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Schechner, Sara <sche...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: Hey, hey, I just wrote in to the list a day ago. J But I’ll grant you that some of us are rather quiet online because we are too busy with other things—like cataloguing sundials in museums. Sara (a woman last I checked) Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D. David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617-496-9542 | Fax: 617-496-5932 | sche...@fas.harvard.edu http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi.html From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Marcelo Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 6:13 PM To: Sundial List Subject: Where are the women? I've just noticed that, as long as I remember, there is no female participation in this mailing list. As I study in the Astronomical and Geophysical Institute at the University of Sao Paulo, where we lack not of the gracious presence of women - there are more men here, but women are expressive too - I strange their absence from our astronomical inquiries and conversations. Maybe there is some truth in that old cliché of men being more prone to math and abstration than them? --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial -- J. L. Berggren Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics Simon Fraser University 8888 University Dr. Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 phone: 604-936-2268 fax: 604-936-2168 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1497/3497 - Release Date: 03/10/11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1498/3501 - Release Date: 03/11/11
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