Fw: [MC74 and Friends] announcement to PNEHs -Theme for next week

Hello 2 ba chu

Since I returned from Asia, I have been submerged in work from dawn till the wee hours, and didn't have time for any relaxation... Yep, living up to my motto, work hard play hard! I'm catching my breath this week-end and am sending you belatedly another entry on time device taken at the Janta Mantar in Jaipur. It an observatory built by a Maharaja in the 18th century, with many geometric devices for measuring time, predicting eclipses and tracking stars location as the earth orbits around the sun.
The instruments are huge structures. In one of the photos, there's the Samrat Yantra, the largest sundial in the world standing 27 meters tall and one can see the shadow moving at 1 mm per second... pretty amazing feat!

Cheers

Caro