Greetings! Just wanted to introduce myself...my name is Rhonda Law and my husband and I run a business called Blades of Tara. Among our sale items, we sell a...
Stircrazy
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May 1, 1998 7:35 am
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* Some years ago I purchased a Solaris Sundial, a clever small plastic spherical one floating in water which can be adjusted for the site latitude, and can be...
Ross McCluney
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May 1, 1998 2:27 pm
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... Hi! Since I am a seller of a great number of wearable and portable sundials, I will certainly check this out! I will let you all know if I find them. I...
Stircrazy
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May 1, 1998 7:12 pm
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Dear Friends, If you are not familiar with the book "Die Uhr" by Anton Lubeke, it is a very interesting resource for dialists. The first 70 pages are devoted...
Bob Terwilliger
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May 3, 1998 8:55 pm
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I have two references to the use of a hand that is holding a stick, as a sundial. One is p35 of Experiments in Astronomy for Amateurs, by Richard Knox; and...
Peter Abrahams
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May 4, 1998 2:37 am
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... Hello Bob I've found the same picture without the text in a German book called "Die Uhr: Geschichte-Technik-Stil ", the author is Gerhard Koenig and it is...
Volker Negele
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May 4, 1998 10:10 am
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Hello Arthur . In the last cloudy weekend I' ve studied also the inverse problem : given a hyperbola or at least 5 points find the foci and asymptotes. I've...
Nicelli Alberto
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May 4, 1998 10:19 am
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I've got an extra copy of Hydrographic Office publication HO-260, "Azimuths of the Sun", 1964 reprint. Older editions were HO-71. For $5.00 I'll mail it...
Richard M. Koolish
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May 4, 1998 3:16 pm
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With apologies to the author: In summer's time, observe this rule: Turn your back to the sun. But if, when winter's time is here, You might stand tall, and...
George L. McDowell, Jr.
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May 4, 1998 6:04 pm
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Dear Bob Terwilliger, There are severals books from a German author about this subject. The Sundial is also called "Bauren-Compass" or in English "Farmers...
Eichholz
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May 4, 1998 7:17 pm
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Hi! I'm interested in finding new stardials, nocturlabs and sundials to sell. I am looking for the portable or wearable kind. I currently offer a large...
Stircrazy
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May 4, 1998 10:21 pm
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... From: Sara Schechner Genuth <sschech@...> Message-Id: <199805032239.SAA16897@...> Subject: Re: Using one's hand as a sundial To:...
Sara Schechner Genuth
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May 3, 1998 11:40 pm
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Please correct the oversight in 6) ...."The other axis is perpendicular in V" with .... "The other axis is perpendicular in S, described in 7)." Alberto...
Nicelli Alberto
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May 5, 1998 11:13 am
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Dear Friends, Thanks to everyone who responded to my request concerning the German text surrounding the image of the man using his hand as a sundial. The Web...
Bob Terwilliger
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May 5, 1998 2:33 pm
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The German text omits some instructions found in my two modern sources. They say to use your left hand pointed west in the morning, and right hand ponted east...
Peter Abrahams
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May 5, 1998 7:06 pm
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Dear Friends, I received a very interesting message from George McDowell, in which he may have resolved the problem with the translation of the German text ...
Bob Terwilliger
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May 5, 1998 7:34 pm
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... I had been interpreting "turn your back to the sun" to mean face North, and your source suggests facing due East or West, but I'm starting to think the...
Arthur Carlson
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May 5, 1998 9:15 pm
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Well, I see that I contributed to some confusion. The two modern texts I cited use the hands as a horizontal dial, with hours in a sequence on either hand. ...
Peter Abrahams
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May 5, 1998 11:33 pm
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Dear friends, In a message from Peter Abrahams to Art Carlson ... I suggest this is a different method of body time-keeping from the one shown in the woodcut....
Bob Terwilliger
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May 5, 1998 11:53 pm
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... I can almost accept this. The three lines devoted to the winter seem excessive in terms of instructions; if, on the other hand, they are a poetic...
Arthur Carlson
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May 6, 1998 9:17 am
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Quite by chance I came across a remarkable "sundial" - there should be another word for it - in front of the church of St. Eustache near Les Halles in Paris....
Andrew Pettit
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May 6, 1998 12:14 pm
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... About this sundial some is published in the book : Cadrans Solaires de Paris Andreé Gotteland and Georges Camus. ISBN 2-271-05035-9 The dial is placed in...
fer j. de vries
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May 6, 1998 1:44 pm
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Dear Friends, A correction and a suggestion. 1) In a previous post I offered: "The surface of the hand is intended to be parallel to the equator at noon and...
Bob Terwilliger
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May 6, 1998 2:41 pm
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Would like to buy a copy of 'Cadrans Solaires de Paris.' Advice appreciated. Thanks...
George L. McDowell, Jr.
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May 6, 1998 4:12 pm
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... Hallo There are a new edition of the book : "CADRANS SOLAIRES DE PARIS" from Adree Gottland and Georges Camus ISBN 2-271-05533-4 -- CNRS Editions,...
Karl Schwarzinger
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May 6, 1998 4:44 pm
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In January I wrote but may be worth repeating: A note about a new edition of "Cadrans Solaires de Paris" was in the December 97 edition of the North American...
Claude Hartman
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May 6, 1998 9:03 pm
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At the recent meeting of the British Sundial Society it was announced that Charles Aked had died on April 22. Charles was the former Editor of the Bulletin...
Fred Sawyer
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May 9, 1998 5:36 pm
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There is was article in the British Sundial Society Bulletin No 89/2 entitled "A Remote Reading Sundial" by W.G.Benoy that used fibre optics. Worth reading. ...
The Shaws
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May 9, 1998 10:56 pm
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Last Sunday evening I happened to turn on the television and found the classic film and musical "The Wizard of Oz." Although I've seen it many times, this was...
Tom Kreyche
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May 13, 1998 5:22 am
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... Hello!! Wow!! I will have to watch it now just to see if I can see this!! Cool...thanks for sharing this! Rhonda Law Blades of Tara CHECK OUT OUR WEBPAGE...
