Dear anglophone dialists, An article in the recent BSS Bulletin on the double-horizontal dial by W. Oughtred has revived my interest in it and I also revisited...
Günther Faltlhansl
faltl@...
Jul 1, 2001 6:14 pm
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Hello extraterrestrial diallists ! Fer, is it possible to send us, as attached files, this article from Heinz SIGMUND ? In text mode it might not be too large...
Alain MORY
dnastro@...
Jul 1, 2001 7:03 pm
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Günther , You have hit on one of my pet interest. I am always thrilled and amazed when I hear someone pronunce a word that I have only read before,...
Ron Anthony
unique14@...
Jul 1, 2001 7:04 pm
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Hi Gunther, I believe the name is usually pronounced "Oo-tred", though I have heard "Ow-tred" on occasions. It is an unusual name in English - I have never...
John Davis
John.Davis@...
Jul 1, 2001 7:10 pm
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Hello Alain, This is a too large job for me. The article is 17 pages and I have to scan them all. One page scanned will be some 200 kB. Otherwise you can't...
fer j. de vries
ferdv@...
Jul 2, 2001 8:49 am
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Dear linguisto-diallists, Thank you for your kind responses. As you can see from the table, the answer does not seem to be so clear-cut after all. Bill Thayer...
Günther Faltlhansl
faltl@...
Jul 2, 2001 8:11 pm
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... -- Bill Thayer LacusCurtius http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman...
Bill Thayer
petworth@...
Jul 2, 2001 9:24 pm
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There are quite a few Oughtreds still living in the UK so I contacted one, a Mr Christopher Oughtred! He has just sent me this: Thank you for your email,...
Patrick Powers
Patrick_Powers@...
Jul 3, 2001 10:37 am
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Hello All, Anselmo Pérez Serrada, Spain, offered me to translate the gnomonic terms in my program ZW2000 into Castellano and I added this language to my...
fer j. de vries
ferdv@...
Jul 3, 2001 3:51 pm
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Well, a touch of the raining & pouring here; following on from my previous message I have now had a reply from a lady solicitor who works in a firm called...
Patrick Powers
Patrick_Powers@...
Jul 3, 2001 3:52 pm
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Re: OughtredWell observed, Justin! I am slipping. I am glad I don't have to write it 50 times, as may have been customary in such cases at school. (;-)) ... ...
Günther Faltlhansl
faltl@...
Jul 3, 2001 8:13 pm
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Dobroe utro Brian (sorry my computer does not write cyrillic), This is quite an idea that I admit I would not have thought of. I have searched my Russian...
Günther Faltlhansl
faltl@...
Jul 3, 2001 8:14 pm
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As for "Oughtred", I never gave it a thought, always having assumed it was "Ought" as in "you ought to do this" plus "red" as in the colour. A famous family of...
Rudolf Hooijenga
r.hooijenga@...
Jul 3, 2001 9:32 pm
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... it was ... comes ... that ... I have a British friend who is always pulling the legs of his American friends (and foes) because (se says) Americans do not...
Fernando Cabral
fernando@...
Jul 4, 2001 12:49 pm
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... The other possible embarrassment is guessing the gender of one's correspondent. Some first names which are strictly for girls in the UK are ordinarily...
Tony Moss
tony@...
Jul 4, 2001 1:27 pm
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Message text written by INTERNET:fernando@... ... some difficulties too. Maybe from now on I will not feel so embarrassed < Never feel embarrassed...
Patrick Powers
Patrick_Powers@...
Jul 4, 2001 1:40 pm
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Hi! First of all: Sorry my awful english! I found yesterday this mailing list and i've just subscribe it. My name is Rui Farinha. I'm 28 years old, i'm a...
Rui Farinha
rfarinha@...
Jul 6, 2001 12:41 pm
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Hi Rui, Welcome to the Sundial Mailing List, and the fascinating world of sundials. Here are some places to start. The North American Sundial Society: ...
Robert Terwilliger
bobt@...
Jul 6, 2001 1:39 pm
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Hello Rui, Welcome to the list! We need youthful (intellectually and otherwise) energy once in a while to shake things up and get things going. I am sure you...
J.Tallman
jtallman@...
Jul 6, 2001 2:52 pm
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Hello to you and all the other good and kind "guys" that have time to spent wrintig some words to me! I'm in the beggining so it's all quite new for me (not in...
Rui Farinha
rfarinha@...
Jul 6, 2001 5:55 pm
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Has i wrote before: Thank you all! Next monday i will answer with more time. Now i must follow the sun path. Later i will answer to each and every one more...
Rui Farinha
rfarinha@...
Jul 6, 2001 6:19 pm
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Bom dia, Rui! In addition to the excellent links that Bob sent you, I'd like to point out also the British Sundial Society: http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/...
Thierry van Steenberghe
100342.254@...
Jul 7, 2001 2:52 pm
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Dear Rui et. al., ... I apologize for overlooking the BSS site in my message to Rui. Peter Scott has put together a very professional and attractive site....
Robert Terwilliger
bobt@...
Jul 8, 2001 1:55 pm
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Hello, all! Bob Terwilliger wrote, ... He is quite right; I heartily agree! Best wishes, John...
John Schilke
doc@...
Jul 8, 2001 3:18 pm
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Dear friends, A member of the Catalan Sundials Society is going to Iceland for holiday this summer and should appreciate very much to have possible information...
Conxita Bou
cbvbet@...
Jul 10, 2001 5:18 am
5294
In the far north of Iceland, there is a large ring of wooden figures laid out as a sundial in a park called Kjarnastogar, near the town of Akureyi. The gnomon...
Fred Sawyer
fwsawyer@...
Jul 10, 2001 1:30 pm
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This is a general answer. More soon i hope have time to write to each and everyone who wrote me such wonderful an nice words and gave me so good ideas,...
Rui Farinha
rfarinha@...
Jul 10, 2001 2:03 pm
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Hi Fred, Time is a relative notion. In the north of Iceland maybe more than elsewhere. But, what is "too far off"? At the latitude of about 65 degrees the...
Willy Leenders
willy.leenders@...
Jul 10, 2001 5:03 pm
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A few yearsa ago John Fauvel sent me a photograph of a horizontal sundial at Thingvellir in Iceland. The site is, I believe, the site of Icelend's first...
peter ransom
p_ransom@...
Jul 10, 2001 5:56 pm
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I don't have my International Time Zones map to hand, but I think I'm right in saying that Iceland is in the same time zone as the UK. The West coast of...
