Paul Schütze – Second Site: 27°37'35" N 77°13'05" E (CD)

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Počet disků

1

Rok vydání

1997

EAN

724384481124

Tracce

• 1-01

  First Prologue

  1:00

• 1-02

  The Dial Is Only Visible By Starlight

  1:16

• 1-03

  Every Day At Noon The Sun Shines Through These Apertures For The Space Of About A Minute

  0:38

• 1-04

  The Image Of The Sun Indicates The Sun's Position As It Passes Through A Hole In The Concurve Surface

  1:15

• 1-05

  There Is A Brass Pointer Fitted With Sights And Pivoted To The Centre Of The Circle By Which Altitude Observations Are Made

  0:49

• 1-06

  The Chamber Is No Longer Accessible To Visitors

  1:00

• 1-07

  Access To Any Part Of The Engine Is By Steps Which Offer Vantage Points For Various Readings

  0:49

• 1-08

  Suspended In The Hum Of History

  1:10

• 1-09

  Originally Cross Wires Stretched Across Each Hemisphere, East To West And North To South

  1:17

• 1-10

  The Ramped Stair To The North Of The Two Drums Vanishes At Thirty-two Feet

  1:03

• 1-11

  These Steps Enable The Observer To See All Aspects Of The Brass Calibration Below

  0:39

• 1-12

  There Is A Huge Calibrated Sundial On Each Of Its Sides

  0:59

• 1-13

  This Chamber Is Filled With Garden Tools And Broken Furniture

  1:00

• 1-14

  The Mosaic Of Starlight Slips Back Like The Lid Of An Opening Eye

  0:59

• 1-15

  This Engine Is Primarily A Calculator, Though Altitudes May Be Observed Using The Sighting Bar Fitted To The Back

  0:59

• 1-16

  It Is Inscribed With Concentric Circles, At The Centre Of Which Lies A Pointer

  1:01

• 1-17

  The Calibrated Parts Are Raised On Three-foot Pillars

  1:00

• 1-18

  The Pink Masonry Charges The Twilight With A Faint Sound

  0:59

• 1-19

  Another Slope With Stars For The Reading Of Figures

  1:00

• 1-20

  This Engine Is Now Only Visible In Twilight

  1:00

• 1-21

  Here Is An Immense Brass Circle Suspended Vertically From Stone Supports

  0:48

• 1-22

  Two Hemispheres Representing The Sphere Of Heaven Comprise The Two Halves Of This Engine

  1:10

• 1-23

  This Wall Describes Accurately The North/South Meridian

  0:59

• 1-24

  There Are Pillars At The Centre Of Each Circular Wall Each Open To The Sky

  0:49

• 1-25

  First Memory

  1:09

• 1-26

  The Sky Has Shaped This Place

  1:00

• 1-27

  Here I Find A Central Iron Pole With Hooks Facing To The North, South, East And West

  0:59

• 1-28

  A Shadow Is Cast To The West Before Noon

  0:58

• 1-29

  The Shadow Can Fall In The Vacant Sector Of A Drum

  1:01

• 1-30

  Days And Nights Are Measured Here, And In The Measuring Seem Longer, Suspended Somehow

  1:00

• 1-31

  The Whole Brass Circle Can Be Revolved Around Its Vertical Diameter So That Altitude Observations Can Be Taken Of Any Object At Any Time

  0:59

• 1-32

  A Lofty But Narrow Chamber Is Contrived In The Thickness Of The Walls And Access Is Gained From A Door Opening From The Masonry Platform On Which The Engine Stands

  0:36

• 1-33

  A Further Series Of Steps Is Only Visible During The Vernal Equinox

  0:23

• 1-34

  Hold The Machine In The Vertical Plane

  1:00

• 1-35

  Visible Portions Of The Celestial Sphere Are Represented By This Map Which Has A Movable Elliptic Which Pivots At The Point Representing The Pole

  1:01

• 1-36

  To Move Through These Structures Is To Set Them In Motion

  0:58

• 1-37

  The Altitude Of The Body Observed Is Given While Observing The Vertically Hanging Bar Through The Two Brass Rings

  0:59

• 1-38

  A Shadow Is Cast To The East After Noon

  0:59

• 1-39

  These Calibrations Are No Longer Clearly Visible

  0:59

• 1-40

  Another Flight Of Observation Steps And The Sense Of Quiet Rotation As I Ascend

  1:00

• 1-41

  I Study The Vaults Of A Shell In Which We Float

  0:59

• 1-42

  Twenty-seven Degrees, Thirty-seven Seconds

  1:00

• 1-43

  The Roofs Of The Enclosed Drums Are Implied By Shadows

  0:59

• 1-44

  The Floor And Walls Are Calibrated To Read Altitude And Azimuth

  0:59

• 1-45

  These Are The Cool Engines Of Celestial Map-making

  1:00

• 1-46

  Here Is The Supreme Engine

  0:59

• 1-47

  The Sun Seen Through The Pair Of Brass Rings Is Used By The Bar To Indicate The Time From Sunrise Until Sunrise

  1:00

• 1-48

  A Pointer Indicates On Three Arms: West, North And East

  0:59

• 1-49

  Here Was The Supreme Engine

  0:58

• 1-50

  Engine Of Amplitude Has A Function Which Is No Longer Known

  1:00

• 1-51

  This Engine Is A Rectangular Brass Plate

  0:59

• 2-01

  Second Prologue

  0:59

• 2-02

  Once Complete Engine Is Formed By Two Differently Incomplete Parts Which Combined Provide Total Reference

  1:00

• 2-03

  At One Moment In The Year The Sun Shines Through A Hole In The Wall On To A Calibrated Arc

  1:00

• 2-04

  The Stone Dish Is Slotted With Figures And Shadow

  1:00

• 2-05

  The Positions And Altitudes Of Heavenly Bodies Maybe Gauged With This Engine

  0:59

• 2-06

  Some Steps Ascend Past Markings To A Platform

  1:00

• 2-07

  The Central Pillars Are Five Feet Three Inches In Diameter

  0:58

• 2-08

  On The East Face Are Inscribed Two Quadrants Of Twenty-feet Radius

  1:00

• 2-09

  The Plants Will Steal This Engine When We Have Gone

  1:00

• 2-10

  The Shadow Is Cast North/South At Noon By An Iron Pin

  0:59

• 2-11

  A Shadow Is Cast To The East After Noon

  1:00

• 2-12

  These Steps Are Worn To A Ramp And Lead Nowhere

  0:59

• 2-13

  All The Lead Calibrations Are Warm To The Touch

  1:00

• 2-14

  It Is Only Necessary To Engrave A Scale Of The Tangents Along The Rim To Obtain A Direct Reading Of The Declination

  0:17

• 2-15

  Second Memory

  0:43

• 2-16

  The Lead Calibrations Are Poisonous To The Touch

  0:59

• 2-17

  This Is The North Pointer Engine

  1:00

• 2-18

  The Rim Of Each Hemisphere Is A Horizon Divided Into Degrees And Minutes

  0:59

• 2-19

  Here Is A Room To Divide The Sun Like An Orange

  0:59

• 2-20

  Sighting Bars Were Placed In The Slots Within The Chamber, But None Remain Now

  0:59

• 2-21

  The Sound Of Insects Here Studs The Night Like A Thousand Fizzing Stars

  0:57

• 2-22

  Access By Observers To Each Engine Is Gained By An Imperfection Which Differs From One To Another

  1:02

• 2-23

  These Structures Are Made In Receipt Of Starlight

  0:54

• 2-24

  Seven Of The Eight Rings Indicate Signs

  0:31

• 2-25

  Third Memory

  0:35

• 2-26

  Fourth Memory

  1:07

• 2-27

  I Have Observed And Measured For Seven Years

  0:51

• 2-28

  The Heavens Were Spherical

  0:37

• 2-29

  Fifth Memory

  0:23

• 2-30

  There Are Four Of These Arcs, Two In Each Chamber

  0:58

• 2-31

  These Are Instruments Fuelled By Shadow, And Engines Propelled By The Sliding Of The Skies

  1:11

• 2-32

  The Stars Are Ranged Across The Inner Shell Of A Vast Hollow Sphere In Which Hung The Earth

  0:48

• 2-33

  All The Gardens Will Concur. Here Is The Mixed Engine

  0:59

• 2-34

  I Will Build Other Gardens, Other Engines

  0:58

• 2-35

  And The Light Falls On The Circular Arcs

  1:03

• 2-36

  Beneath This Circle Is An Arc Of Masonry Steps For The Convenience Of Observes

  1:00

• 2-37

  Threads Can Be Pegged To The Centre Of Each Quadrant And Semicircle To Enable Observation

  0:57

• 2-38

  Here Is A Huge Vertical Right-Angled Triangle Made Of Stone

  1:02

• 2-39

  These Arcs Are Also Accessible By Numerous Flights Of Stairs

  0:59

• 2-40

  We Are Closer To The Sun Now

  0:59

• 2-41

  On The West Face Is Described A Semicircle Of Nineteen-Feet, Ten-Inch Radius

  1:00

• 2-42

  Into This Chamber No Ray Of Light Can Find Its Way Except Through Two Small Squares High In The South Wall

  1:00

• 2-43

  The Movement Of The Engines Produces A Scent

  0:58

• 2-44

  Sixth Memory

  0:56

• 2-45

  Pointing Towards The Pole An Iron Pin Is Fixed At Right Angles To The Centre Of A Dial

  0:59

• 2-46

  Some Of The Calibrations Are Now Submerged Beneath The Ground And Cannot Be Read

  1:01

• 2-47

  This Room Is A Lidless Drum

  1:02

• 2-48

  Seventh Memory

  0:57

• 2-49

  Near The Bottom Of The Wall Facing The South Side Of The Eastern Hemisphere There Is A Hole

  1:59

• 2-50

  There Are Arcs Made Of Marble Which Are Calibrated With Inlaid Lead In Degrees And Minutes

  2:01

• 2-51

  I Have Seen Charts Sent From Portugal But They Are Flawed And Full Of Error

  1:01