RE: VMs: Libra

["Bianchi, David (PS, NP)" <david.bianchi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody,
here a link to a picture of Padua Tower clock made by Giovanni de Dondi's.

http://www.padovafoto.com/orologio_signori.htm

As you can see the Libra sign is missing and has been replaced by SCORPIO.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Pelling [mailto:incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: mercoledì 24 dicembre 2003 17.23
To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: VMs: Libra


Hi Dana,

At 01:30 24/12/2003 -0700, Dana Scott wrote:
>Great! Thanks. Very interesting. No doubt this will be hard to pin down.
>
>Here are a few more examples: <SNIP>

Another route to take might be to look at the (often circular?) designs 
used for Libra (and Sagittarius, etc) on astronomical clocks from the 15th 
Century (which is when they started spreading through Europe).

A quick search found astronomical clocks in Prague (though I think the 
Orloj's calendar is modern), Rostock, Exeter Cathedral, etc (but no good 
site listing them all) - I'm also unsure whether Giovanni de Dondi's 
original astronomical clock in Padua (built between 1348 and 1362) had any 
kind of ornamental zodiacal calendar at all.

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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