Sunday, January 19, 2014

Sundial: VOLAT IRREVOCABILIS · ULTIMA LATET

I am clearly going to have too much fun with this sundial project. For the second post, I picked a really beautiful sundial from the southern Tyrol, and then I realized that the transcription of the motto at Wikimedia is surely incorrect! So, I explain in the blog post what the transcription must surely be.


Plus... that gave me an excuse to write to Michel Lalos. He has the single most amazing website of sundial photographs — Albums de cadrans solaires — that I have found anywhere, and he also repeats the incorrect transcription. I am hoping that he will be interested in having a corrected transcription, and perhaps he might also let me include his photograph of this sundial in my blog post because his photo is really lovely.

Fingers crossed: I will be so excited if I hear back from him! Meanwhile, I already heard from ManfredK at Wikimedia, who alerted me to this lovely photograph which he contributed:



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