Talk:Astronomical clock

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[edit] Something missing

What was wrong with the section "time of day" that made it get deleted? Cormullion 16:00, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

That was probably just pointless vandalism. u p p l a n d 16:55, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

OK! I'm quite new to Wikipedia, so I thought someone had found something technically wrong with it... Cormullion 17:36, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Schwilgue

I don't see why the Schwilgue page I created should be merged into the astronomical clock page. Of course, an astronomical clock page can give names of people who built astronomical clocks, but the page I created should and can be extended, as there is much more to say than what I have written as a start. Schwilgue 15:20, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I haven't moved anything, don't know who did. :-) I can see that organising all this material isn't always easy. This section could be a main entry point for astronomical clocks - a list of links, some generic description, and so on. Then each clock could have its own page and history, or a section in another page. And each builder could have their own page too. The only requirement is to avoid duplicating the same information in many different pages, and deciding which information should go in which page. But if everything is carefully wikilinked, that shouldn't be so much of a problem? I have more material planned for this main 'astronomical clock' page - mainly explanatory about typical display techniques, because I've spent some time trying to understand them - rather than information about particular clocks or builders, for which I have little knowledge. Cormullion 08:57, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sørnes clock

Can you give a link to where the English edition of Sørnes' book can be obtained? I have the Norwegian version, but my Norwegian is a bit weak.Schwilgue 19:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Presumably the Sørnes clock isn't as unique as this entry claims. Judging from the description of the Festo Astrolabium ([1]), there seems to be more than one crazy genius who's prepared to spend decades building amazing astronomical clocks that manage to achieve unheard of levels of precision by adding complex gearing. I don't want to minimize the amazing achievement of Sørnes but I don't want others with similar achievements to be excluded with claims that he's unique. Please could the entry be changed to be more encyclopedic and neutral?

I must change that Festo link - their web site is too hard to look through! Cormullion 12:37, 29 September 2006 (UTC)