... I know what you mean. Nevertheless, it is just a matter of time until thesatellites have all of us pin-pointed. It seems we will have to redefine what ...
Fernando Cabral
fernando@...
Sep 1, 1998 4:03 pm
693
... And when it doesn't work, we can at least have a lot of fun withrefined non-sense it generates :-) - fernando -- mailto:fernando@......
Fernando Cabral
fernando@...
Sep 1, 1998 4:08 pm
694
... For what its worth, I think I've missed something too. It is a pretty sad location finder. Enter a valid city in the U. S., and I get a box that tells me...
Tom McHugh
tbmchugh@...
Sep 1, 1998 10:41 pm
695
... continental US ... What I did was to go into the green area until an image appears. The click on the little "map" 'button' on the upper left of the image....
Hank de Wit
H.deWit@...
Sep 2, 1998 12:40 am
696
... Thank you all for your input. I can't say that I'm surprised at the general lack of enthusiasm for the notion of getting a patent. I do think my design is...
Uncle John
jh@...
Sep 2, 1998 1:28 am
697
Babelfish translations are a paradox. If you don't know both languages you can't tell how goofy the translations are and take them on faith. If you know both...
Jack Aubert
jaubert@...
Sep 2, 1998 2:26 am
698
... Based on what I know about previous success and failures stories, it can be terribly good or terribly bad to have people saying you'll not make any money ...
Fernando Cabral
fernando@...
Sep 2, 1998 5:47 pm
699
Hello sundiallers Caveat emptor: This is a long, almost off-topic and probabily boring narrative. keep reading at your own risk. I want to thank a few people...
Fernando Cabral
fernando@...
Sep 2, 1998 6:02 pm
700
Hello, I have many questions about sundial shadows. Hope this is interesting stuff. General issue is how to design the sundial so that it is most easy to...
Ben Hoffmann
bensshop@...
Sep 2, 1998 8:19 pm
701
... I discussed this, using the umbra/penumbra analogy, in "The fuzziness of solar shadows," Compendium 1-3, August 1994, pp. 11-15. ... Of course this depends...
Ross McCluney
RMccluney@...
Sep 3, 1998 6:20 pm
702
Message-ID: <35EEE7A3.241@...> Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 21:01:55 +0200 From: "fer j. de vries" <ferdv@...> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) ...
fer j. de vries
ferdv@...
Sep 3, 1998 8:01 pm
703
... Comme vous tous, passionné de cadrans solaires, j'aime beaucoup l'esprit de votre mailing-list. Le débat sur les langues employées était très...
Al MO
dnastro@...
Sep 3, 1998 8:52 pm
704
Dear Uncle, I am currently researching patents in rural fences in Australia (posts, droppers, spreaders, wire, machines, etc.) I have looked at all Australian ...
John Pickard
john.pickard@...
Sep 5, 1998 3:17 am
705
There has been a lot of talk about language lately. This contribution has nothing to do with sundials either, but I noticed it a few days ago, and members who...
The Shaws
mshaw01@...
Sep 6, 1998 4:40 pm
706
Greetings. I will be visiting Ottawa and Prince Edward Island in Canada in late October, and would be grateful for news of any interesting sundials in these...
Sungroup@...
Sep 7, 1998 9:43 pm
707
Greetings. I will be visiting Ottawa and Prince Edward Island in Canada in late October, and would be grateful for news of any interesting sundials in these...
Sungroup@...
Sep 7, 1998 9:52 pm
708
Dear The Shaws, I just LOVE conspiracy theories, alien reports, Elvis sightings, and urban myths. Thanks for making me laugh (when I should have been working!)...
John Pickard
john.pickard@...
Sep 9, 1998 6:24 am
709
Sundial Mailing List, I'm thinking about machining a sundial out of brass or bronze. I'd welcome ideas about what type to use. There are many variations of ...
Ben Hoffmann
bensshop@...
Sep 11, 1998 8:51 pm
710
Apologies for a totally off-list query but things are fairly quiet at the moment - and one or two list members enjoyed my last poser! More than ten years ago...
Tony Moss
tony@...
Sep 12, 1998 11:42 pm
711
... Great idea, though how practical I'm not sure. The refractive index of water is around 1.33 for seawater. Snell's equation for the refraction of light...
Ross McCluney
RMccluney@...
Sep 13, 1998 4:36 pm
712
My apologies to Mr. Moss, since I think his mystery proverb question is actually more fun than the above idea. Also, I did search the archive to see if this...
William J. Daciuk
wjdaed@...
Sep 13, 1998 4:44 pm
713
Hello Bill, You might try Fer de Vries' ZONWVLAK, which designs flat submerged dials, along with its other features. You may choose the refractive index....
Mac Oglesby
oglesby@...
Sep 13, 1998 5:27 pm
714
... Yes, I have made some small models of refraction dials and I also have incorperated the procedure for calculations in my computer programs. In 1993 all the...
fer j. de vries
ferdv@...
Sep 13, 1998 8:27 pm
715
Fellow Shadow Watchers. Again with apologies but I would hate to have inflicted the same unresolved problem on others - like waiting for the upstairs flat...
Tony Moss
tony@...
Sep 14, 1998 10:20 am
716
I can recommend to diallers a book which I found by accident at our local bookshop: "The Stones of Time, Calendars, Sundials and Stone Chambers of Ancient...
Paul Murphy
prmurphy@...
Sep 14, 1998 3:53 pm
717
Greetings all ! Just a question : is it possible to shape the gnomon to take account of the Equation of Time ? Alberto Nicelli Italy ( 45 28' N ; 7 52' E)...
alberto.nicelli@...
Sep 15, 1998 10:32 am
718
Alberto, Yes it is, is the short answer. In fact you will need two shaped gnomons - one for the spring and one for the autumn. For each gnomon to stay in one...
David Higgon
C_C_L@...
Sep 15, 1998 11:00 am
719
Hello, I would like to contact these three persons by e-mail. Could someone communicate me their e-mail address ? - F. BLATEYRON ( France ) - Gianni FERRARI (...
goas@...
Sep 15, 1998 1:34 pm
720
Very clear, David. Thank you also for the marvelous photo . My doubt is for plane dials however oriented : in this case does exist a shape of the gnomon good...
alberto.nicelli@...
Sep 15, 1998 3:08 pm
721
Hello, Alberto! Yes, it does make a fine math problem, one you have to solve numerically using a computer. You will indeed need two spindle-shaped gnomons, one...
