By the way: how would you translate the Italian "foro gnomonico" or the French "oeilleton"?
Dan Uza On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:02 PM Frank King <f...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear Fabio, > > An interesting message... > > > In Italy some sundials show the > > written 'costante locale'... > > I find Italian gnomonic vocabulary great > fun. There are technical terms which > sound very good in Italian but sound very > odd when directly translated into English. > > I especially enjoy 'Foro gnomonico' and > 'Meridiana a camera oscura'. > > I share your dislike of 'costante locale'. > This could be interpreted in many ways. > Is it the height above sea level or the > local latitude or something else? > > In English I often use the word 'offset' > and this can be 'an angular offset' or > 'a time offset' or 'a displacement offset' > and for 'costante locale' I would usually > write: > > the local longitude offset > > It helps that in England, the local > reference meridian is Greenwich but > to be more precise I would write: > > the longitude offset from the > reference meridian for the local > time zone > > From where I am sitting: > > My longitude offset (from the > Greenwich meridian) is one-eighth > of a degree east or 30 seconds of > time. > > 'Offset' is used for angles, time > or distance. > > Frank > > Frank King > Cambridge, U.K. > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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