Seems to me that with all this new terminology, we need an addendum to the glossary just to keep up with the gnomonclature....
Steven Woodbury
woodburybauer@...
Sep 2, 2000 7:31 pm
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Hi Steven, I think I have enough work on the Glossary without invented terms ;-) In compiling the second edition, I have allowed in the "housewife's trick"...
John Davis
John.Davis@...
Sep 3, 2000 6:12 pm
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Dear All, The final version 1 of the Windows program Zw2000 is now available. The program and the manual can be downloaded at my homepage. ...
fer j. de vries
ferdv@...
Sep 4, 2000 9:36 am
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Dear Fer: Is the online final version of Zw2000 different from the version found in the new NASS Registry CD by Fred Sawyer? Thanks John Carmichael ... sundial...
John Carmichael
pappas@...
Sep 4, 2000 5:27 pm
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Hi John, The final version is an improvement of the version on the NASS CD. There was no planned timing between the NASS CD and my programming so it is just...
fer j. de vries
ferdv@...
Sep 4, 2000 9:17 pm
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Good morning, I'll leave for Brussels in two days from today. I wish to express my gratitude to all of us who gave me good information and inspiring...
André E. Bouchard
600009@...
Sep 5, 2000 11:48 am
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I am thinking of ordering one of these dials... http://www.sundials.co.uk/connois.htm#equator I live in Los Angeles, California (Santa Monica, actually) - is...
Mike Harding
mvh@...
Sep 6, 2000 2:24 pm
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Hello all: I've been investigating existing monumental ( very large) horizontal sundials which use a vertical perpendicular gnomon instead of the traditional...
John Carmichael
pappas@...
Sep 6, 2000 3:43 pm
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Hi John, Some years ago a horizontal dial with vertical gnomon is realized in Hoogeveen Netherlands. It is on a round place of about 20 m diameter. With...
fer j. de vries
ferdv@...
Sep 6, 2000 7:54 pm
4504
Dear friends, I need help: for teaching purposes I use a DOS program "Planetario" written by me and some collegues in Quick Basic. It's completely freeware and...
Piero Ranfagni
ranfagni@...
Sep 7, 2000 9:05 am
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Hello, I have the project to engrave a sundial on a brass plate. I would like to know if somebody has used a good technique to do that with a great precision...
GOAS HJP
hjpgoas@...
Sep 7, 2000 11:28 am
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I've been experimenting with Fer's new ZW2000 program. I wondered about the program name derivation so I asked a friend in The Netherlands to help translate...
Larry McDavid
lmcdavid@...
Sep 7, 2000 1:40 pm
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Hi John, I found several more: Gullett Elementary School of Austin, Texas Sun tower project http://marple.as.utexas.edu:80/~ideas/ Dupont Planetarium The Ruth...
Frans W. MAES
F.W.Maes@...
Sep 7, 2000 2:55 pm
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John In 1988 the Mont-Saint-Michel was used as a (very) short-lived gnomon. It was designed and set up to work only a few days around fall equinox. So it had...
Jean-Paul CORNEC
Jean-Paul.Cornec@...
Sep 7, 2000 9:16 pm
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Hi All, Thanks to Jean-Paul CORNEC for sending the URL to the photo of the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michele. I hope everyone hit the little "back" arrow below the...
Robert Terwilliger
bobt@...
Sep 8, 2000 1:42 am
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Hello, All dialists know, I'm sure, of the verical-stick, strike and arc, bisect the angle method of determining a north-south line. But is there any other...
Allan Pratt
palan1@...
Sep 8, 2000 3:53 am
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Al Pratt requested ... Why not tie a long rubber band around the north and south poles and then 'snap' it tight at your location? :-) Tony Moss...
Tony Moss
tony@...
Sep 8, 2000 8:57 am
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Hi Allan, On the equinoxes, you can plot the shadow of any point and it will produce an East-West line. A perpendicular would be a N-S line. Warren...
Warren Thom
wthom@...
Sep 8, 2000 10:47 am
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Allan, There is the alternative of stellar observation, i.e., Polaris, and the other circumpolar visual stars. A fairly simple setup of fixed concentric-rings...
Wm. S. Maddux
75211.2555@...
Sep 8, 2000 12:24 pm
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Hi Allan, Yes there is. The old Roman surveyors used 3 shadowpoints of a vertical (pin) gnomon to find the east-west line, thus also the nort-south line is...
fer j. de vries
ferdv@...
Sep 8, 2000 1:03 pm
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Hello dial lovers, For those of us who read English but not French or Dutch, may I point out Fred Saywer's article "A Three-Point Sundial Construction" in his ...
Mac Oglesby
oglesby@...
Sep 8, 2000 1:55 pm
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The method of thre points is explained by Hyginus Gromaticus (III century ) , by Nonius in his "De navigatione", by Clavius (That explains the Nonius method )...
gunella
magun@...
Sep 8, 2000 2:46 pm
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Splendid idea!!!!! Bravo! 8^)> (John with beard) ... From: Tony Moss <tony@...>...
John Schilke
doc@...
Sep 8, 2000 6:38 pm
4518
I have a doubt and I hope someone can help me: I would like to make a Shepherd´s (cilyndrical) dial, and I found the following equation to calculate the size...
Vanderlei Borsari
vanderleib@...
Sep 8, 2000 7:06 pm
4519
Hello, To get a translation of Yvon's pages, I used the following WWW based page translation resource (URL below). It's actually quite good and most of Yvon's...
Luke Coletti
luke@...
Sep 8, 2000 7:29 pm
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... and ... As you live on the Tropic of Capricorn, the noon sun will be vertical above you at summer solstice. At winter solstice, noon sun will be directly ...
Wm. S. Maddux
75211.2555@...
Sep 8, 2000 8:30 pm
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Vanderlei and others, ... and ... above ... above ... 47°. ... I should have gone on to point out that: "As you live on the Tropic of Capricorn, the noon sun...
Wm. S. Maddux
75211.2555@...
Sep 8, 2000 9:47 pm
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... Hi John, I saw on the photo which despite my efforts I could not find, a very interesting sundial with a vertical gnomon. The sundial had the form of an...
Krzysztof Kotynia
krzkoty@...
Sep 10, 2000 9:57 am
4523
It is rather a late reaction, but I thought you might enjoy the following observations: Echoes by stairs "I would like add to this a rather remarkable...
Rudolf Hooijenga
r.hooijenga@...
Sep 10, 2000 9:33 pm
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Fer, congratulations with the Sawyer Dialing Prize ! On the Roman Surveyor's problem, I can add to Fer's article the summary that I made of it. I have added...
