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A theoretical exploration of a sundial of the franciscan friary in Dubrovnik (Croatia)

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The Franciscan friary in Dubrovnik (Croatia) has two old wall sundials mounted in the small and large monastery cloisters. Both indicate equinoctial hours according to the apparent solar time. It is known for one who made it and the year it was made in - Pasko Baletin in 1770, and for the other, there are no data. The second sundial has two scales; on the upper scale, the direction of the shadow indicates hours counted from midnight (Ore francese), whereas on the lower scale, the hours counted from the previous sunset are indicated by the tip of the shadow i.e. its "sunlet" (Ore italiche) as it has been believed so far. In order to check this, we calculated both scales, made drafts and compared them with the existing sundial scales: hour lines on the upper scale coincide, while on the lower scale all calculated hour lines deviate from the existing lines towards the west. However, when the calculations for the lower scale are done in accordance to the hours counted from the end of the c...ivil twilight (Ore italiche da campanile) there is complete compatibility. This was confirmed by on-site observation of the sundial. It remains to search through Dubrovnik archives to discover when the two-scale sundial was made. The last-mentioned variant could have been brought to Dubrovnik in the second half of the 18th century, and since then there was a need to construct a two-scale sundial.

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gnomonics / sundial / Ore italiche / Ore italiche da campanile / mathematical geography
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Zbornik radova Geografskog instituta "Jovan Cvijić", SANU, 2018, 68, 3, 307-320
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  • Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti SANU - Geografski institut 'Jovan Cvijić', Beograd

DOI: 10.2298/IJGI180718001T

ISSN: 0350-7599

WoS: 000453877200001

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https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_895
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title = "A theoretical exploration of a sundial of the franciscan friary in Dubrovnik (Croatia)",
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Tadić, M.,& Prnjat, Z.. (2018). A theoretical exploration of a sundial of the franciscan friary in Dubrovnik (Croatia). in Zbornik radova Geografskog instituta "Jovan Cvijić", SANU
Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti SANU - Geografski institut 'Jovan Cvijić', Beograd., 68(3), 307-320.
https://doi.org/10.2298/IJGI180718001T
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_895
Tadić M, Prnjat Z. A theoretical exploration of a sundial of the franciscan friary in Dubrovnik (Croatia). in Zbornik radova Geografskog instituta "Jovan Cvijić", SANU. 2018;68(3):307-320.
doi:10.2298/IJGI180718001T
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_895 .
Tadić, Milutin, Prnjat, Zorica, "A theoretical exploration of a sundial of the franciscan friary in Dubrovnik (Croatia)" in Zbornik radova Geografskog instituta "Jovan Cvijić", SANU, 68, no. 3 (2018):307-320,
https://doi.org/10.2298/IJGI180718001T .,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_895 .

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