Willy,
there ia also a free pdf-download of this book from
http://openarchive.icomos.org/267/
Helmut Sonderegger
Am 03.07.2013 14:25, schrieb Willy Leenders:
Read the e-book (free) at
http://issuu.com/starlightinitiative/docs/astronomy-and-world-heritage_thematic-study
Willy Leenders
Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)
Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg
(Flanders) with a section 'worth knowing about sundials' (mostly in
Dutch): http://www.wijzerweb.be
Op 1-jul-2013, om 07:10 heeft Rob Seaman het volgende geschreven:
Readers of the Sundial mailing list may be interested in the several
excellent slide presentations from last month's meeting in
Charlottesville, Virginia, "Requirements for UTC and Civil
Timekeeping on Earth":
http://futureofutc.org/program/
Preprints for the proceedings will appear in a few weeks. I am
currently working on my own contribution, "The Meaning of a Day":
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/program/presentations/AAS_13_515.pdf
And have grown interested in issues of monuments and other
commemorative installations relying on astronomical depictions to
convey dates and times. This could be considered a broader category
containing sundials and inscriptions on sundials as well as ancient
monuments such as Stonehenge and perhaps modern public art pieces.
For instance, Hoover Dam commemorates its dedication not only with
monumental sculptures, but also with a detailed celestial map
conveying the precession of the equinoxes and the apparition of the
sky and planets on the date in question:
https://archive.org/details/HooverDamMonumentPlazaSculpturesCompleteBooklet
http://longnow.org/membership/newsletters/02013-march-equinox/
I would welcome any pointers to similar monuments, whether large or
small, especially those with a long term vision such as the 26,000
precessional cycle.
Thanks!
Rob Seaman
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Tucson, AZ
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