Ciao everyone! I have been contacted by a brazilian architect who is in charge of building up a monument in the Italian Apennino between Florence and Bologna...
Angelo Brazzi
brazzian@...
May 2, 2000 4:38 am
4194
Hello dial makers: Since the List has been almost silent these past few days (probably because everyone is playing around with their new DeltaCad programs!), I...
John Carmichael
pappas@...
May 2, 2000 3:11 pm
4195
Greetings from Devon, England. Anyone made a ceiling dial--a mirror by a window projecting the sun's image onto the ceiling marked with hour lines? I have been...
Gordon Watson
G.Watson@...
May 2, 2000 4:37 pm
4196
Gordon, Someone posted this URL on the NASS message board. www.interiorsundials.bigstep.com Its a company in England that designs ceiling dials. ++ron ... ...
Ron Anthony
unique14@...
May 2, 2000 5:14 pm
4197
Hello Mac, together with Charles K Aked and Nicola Severino and my 2000 articles we created in 1997 the International Bibliography of Gnomonica with 12000 ...
Eichholz
KEichholz@...
May 2, 2000 5:14 pm
4198
There is a well-known ceiling dial at the Horniman Museum. It was designed by BSS-member John Moir (amongst others). I'm sure he would be please to discuss...
John Davis
John.Davis@...
May 2, 2000 9:06 pm
4199
Gordon, To calculate a ceiling dial you may use my program Zonwvlak. You can use any orientation of the mirror to test what will fit best. Best wishes, Fer. ...
fer j. de vries
ferdv@...
May 3, 2000 7:47 am
4200
Hi Klaus, Thank you for your reply. The International Bibliography of Gnomonica sounds like a wonderful resource, especially if there are brief descriptions...
Mac Oglesby
oglesby@...
May 3, 2000 11:01 am
4201
Hi Andrew, Thank you for your message. You wrote: (snip) ... Dr John Simmons, the author of "Wren's Dial Remov'd, or High-Victorian Hubris at All Souls," is...
Mac Oglesby
oglesby@...
May 3, 2000 12:53 pm
4202
Dear knowledgeable sundial folk, At the recent BSS conference, one of the sundial competition prizewinning entries was a remote reading sundial based on fibre...
The Shaws
mshaw01@...
May 3, 2000 6:54 pm
4203
Hi, Mike! ... Two places to try, on-line: American Science & Surplus http://www.sciplus.com/ Edmund Scientific http://www.edmundscientific.com/ ... Yes... The...
Dave Bell
dbell@...
May 3, 2000 7:53 pm
4204
Hello Mike, There is a company I have dealt with in the past called Supervision International that does high-tech (whatever that means) signs utilizing fiber...
J.Tallman
jtallman@...
May 3, 2000 8:31 pm
4205
The book "Sundials at an Oxford College" by Philip Patenden refers only to the sundials at Corpus Christi College, not All Souls. -- Frank Evans...
Frank Evans
frankevans@...
May 4, 2000 7:07 am
4206
Fellow Shadow Watchers, In discussion with a dialling friend I was trying to visualise the reasons for the period of illumination of a north-facing vertical...
Tony Moss
tony@...
May 4, 2000 9:06 am
4207
Hi Mac et al, If you're looking for photos of the Wren dial, I have some that I took last summer. I can scan them for anyone that wishes, but the files would...
John Davis
John.Davis@...
May 4, 2000 9:31 am
4208
Hi Mike, For "hobby" supplies in the UK, try Maplins at www.maplins.co.uk. They deliver next-day. Other likely suppliers are Farnell and RS Components. - I ...
John Davis
John.Davis@...
May 4, 2000 9:31 am
4209
... Hi Mac, can you tell me how to get this book? Thank you. - Daniel...
Daniel Roth
roth@...
May 4, 2000 9:45 am
4210
Hello All, I have had several requests for the Supervision link so... The address is below for their web page. They have done alot of work for Disney in...
J.Tallman
jtallman@...
May 4, 2000 4:30 pm
4211
Hello Klaus ! Is this work available, under paper or database file ? Its greatly interresting, because in our club, we are creating a "bibliothèque...
Alain MORY
dnastro@...
May 4, 2000 9:20 pm
4212
Hello all, I wouldn't normally post virus warnings to the list as there are so many hoaxes. This warning came from my brother who works in the computer...
Sarah Edmondson-Jones
sarah_ej@...
May 5, 2000 8:10 am
4213
Hello all: A man in Turkey contacted me looking to purchase a custom bronze horizontal sundial for southern Turkey. He wants the diameter to be about 60 cm. I...
John Carmichael
pappas@...
May 5, 2000 3:02 pm
4214
North American Sundial Society Sixth Annual Conference August 18-20, 2000 San Francisco CA The sixth annual conference of the North American Sundial Society...
Frederick W. Sawyer III
Fred_Sawyer@...
May 6, 2000 2:55 am
4215
The Sixth Annual Conference of The North American Sundial Society will be held Aug 18-20 in San Francisco. For information on the conference location, fees,...
Frederick W. Sawyer III
Fred_Sawyer@...
May 7, 2000 3:25 am
4216
Alain, the solution to your problem is described in "Gnomonique Moderne" by Denis Savoie, published by la societe astronomique de france. An excellent treatise...
peter verbeke & carme...
peter@...
May 7, 2000 1:55 pm
4217
Hi, I need help finding some equations for changing between coordinate systems. Specifically, given the hour angle of the sun (where 0 degrees is high noon), ...
Rod Heil
rodheil@...
May 9, 2000 3:31 am
4218
Hi Fred, Thanks for posting the reference to your paper "Of Sundials, Mean Time and the Analemmatic Sundial" at ...
Roger Bailey
rtbailey@...
May 9, 2000 4:58 am
4219
As usual , there is an error in the URL. Add an s to longwoodgarden, a g to or and an l to htm. The correct URL for the paper "Of Sundials, Mean Time and the...
Roger Bailey
rtbailey@...
May 9, 2000 4:58 am
4220
Yes, it is confirmed. See <http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/02/civil.gps.idg/index.html> and <http://www.spacecom.af.mil/usspacecom/gps_support/>. --...
Richard Langley
lang@...
May 9, 2000 12:28 pm
4221
Dear fellows in sundialling Here I am, back from Morroco after surviving the Sahara Desert and the most gruelling foot race available for mad people like...
Fernando Cabral
fernando@...
May 9, 2000 12:32 pm
4222
In a message dated 5/8/00 11:46:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Here are the Formulas: Let T=Hour Angle of sun, L=Latitude of location, D=Declination of sun,...
