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CD 1 |
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| 1. |
First Prologue. |
1:01 |
| 2. |
The dial is only visible by starlight. |
1:16 |
| 3. |
Every day at noon the sun shines through these apertures for the space of about a minute. |
0:38 |
| 4. |
The image of the sun indicates the sun's position as it passes through a hole in the concurve surface. |
1:15 |
| 5. |
There is a brass pointer fitted with sights and pivoted to the centre of the circle by which altitude observations are made. |
0:49 |
| 6. |
The chamber is no longer accessible to visitors. |
1:00 |
| 7. |
Access to any part of the engine is by steps which offer vantage points for various readings. |
0:49 |
| 8. |
Suspended in the hum of history. |
1:10 |
| 9. |
Originally cross wires stretched across each hemisphere, East to West and North to South. |
1:17 |
| 10. |
The ramped stair to the North of the two drums vanishes at thirty-two feet. |
1:03 |
| 11. |
These steps enable the observer to see all aspects of the brass calibration below. |
0:39 |
| 12. |
There is a huge calibrated sundial on each of its sides. |
0:59 |
| 13. |
This chamber is filled with garden tools and broken furniture. |
1:00 |
| 14. |
The mosaic of starlight slips back like the lid of an opening eye. |
0:59 |
| 15. |
This engine is primarily a calculator, though altitudes may be observed using the sighting bar fitted to the back. |
0:59 |
| 16. |
It is inscribed with concentric circles, at the centre of which lies a pointer. |
1:01 |
| 17. |
The calibrated parts are raised on three-foot pillars. |
1:00 |
| 18. |
The pink masonry charges the twilight with a faint sound. |
0:59 |
| 19. |
Another slope with stars for the reading of figures. |
1:00 |
| 20. |
This engine is now only visible in twilight. |
1:00 |
| 21. |
Here is an immense brass circle suspended vertically from stone supports. |
0:48 |
| 22. |
Two hemispheres representing the sphere of heaven comprise the two halves of this engine. |
1:10 |
| 23. |
This wall describes accurately the North/South meridian. |
0:59 |
| 24. |
There are pillars at the centre of each circular wall each open to the sky. |
0:49 |
| 25. |
First Memory. |
1:09 |
| 26. |
The sky has shaped this place. |
1:00 |
| 27. |
Here I find a central iron pole with hooks facing to the North, South, East and West. |
0:59 |
| 28. |
A shadow is cast to the West before noon. |
0:58 |
| 29. |
The shadow can fall in the vacant sector of a drum. |
1:01 |
| 30. |
Days and nights are measured here, and in the measuring seem longer, suspended somehow. |
1:00 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 33. |
A further series of steps is only visible during the vernal equinox. |
0:23 |
| 34. |
Hold the machine in the vertical plane. |
1:00 |
| 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 |
| 36. |
To move through these structures is to set them in motion. |
0:58 |
| 37. |
The altitude of the body observed is given while observing the vertically hanging bar through the two brass rings. |
0:59 |
| 38. |
A shadow is cast to the East after noon. |
0:59 |
| 39. |
These calibrations are no longer clearly visible. |
0:59 |
| 40. |
Another flight of observation steps and the sense of quiet rotation as I ascend. |
1:00 |
| 41. |
I study the vaults of a shell in which we float. |
0:59 |
| 42. |
Twenty-seven degrees, thirty-seven seconds. |
1:00 |
| 43. |
The roofs of the enclosed drums are implied by shadows. |
0:59 |
| 44. |
The floor and walls are calibrated to read altitude and azimuth. |
0:59 |
| 45. |
These are the cool engines of celestial map-making. |
1:00 |
| 46. |
Here is the Supreme Engine. |
0:59 |
| 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 |
| 48. |
A pointer indicates on three arms: West, North and East. |
0:59 |
| 49. |
Here was the Supreme Engine. |
0:58 |
| 50. |
The engine of amplitude has a function which is no longer known. |
1:00 |
| 51. |
This engine is a rectangular brass plate. |
0:59 |
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CD 2 |
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| 1. |
Second Prologue. |
1:00 |
| 2. |
Once complete engine is formed by two differently incomplete parts which combined provide total reference. |
1:00 |
| 3. |
At one moment in the year the sun shines through a hole in the wall on to a calibrated arc. |
1:00 |
| 4. |
The stone dish is slotted with figures and shadow. |
1:00 |
| 5. |
The positions and altitudes of heavenly bodies maybe gauged with this engine. |
0:59 |
| 6. |
Some steps ascend past markings to a platform. |
1:00 |
| 7. |
The central pillars are five feet three inches in diameter. |
0:58 |
| 8. |
On the East face are inscribed two quadrants of twenty-feet radius. |
1:00 |
| 9. |
The plants will steal this engine when we have gone. |
1:00 |
| 10. |
The shadow is cast North/South at noon by an iron pin. |
0:59 |
| 11. |
A shadow is cast to the East after noon. |
1:00 |
| 12. |
These steps are worn to a ramp and lead nowhere. |
0:59 |
| 13. |
All the lead calibrations are warm to the touch. |
1:00 |
| 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 |
| 15. |
Second Memory. |
0:43 |
| 16. |
The lead calibrations are poisonous to the touch. |
0:59 |
| 17. |
This is the North pointer engine. |
1:00 |
| 18. |
The rim of each hemisphere is a horizon divided into degrees and minutes. |
0:59 |
| 19. |
Here is a room to divide the sun like an orange. |
1:00 |
| 20. |
Sighting bars were placed in the slots within the chamber, but none remain now. |
0:59 |
| 21. |
The sound of insects here studs the night like a thousand fizzing stars. |
0:57 |
| 22. |
Access by observers to each engine is gained by an imperfection which differs from one to another. |
1:02 |
| 23. |
These structures are made in receipt of starlight. |
0:54 |
| 24. |
Seven of the eight rings indicate signs. |
0:31 |
| 25. |
Third Memory. |
0:35 |
| 26. |
Fourth Memory. |
1:07 |
| 27. |
I Have Observed And Measured For Seven Years |
0:51 |
| 28. |
I have observed and measured for seven years. |
0:37 |
| 29. |
Fifth Memory. |
0:23 |
| 30. |
There are four of these arcs, two in each chamber. |
0:58 |
| 31. |
These are instruments fuelled by shadow, and engines propelled by the sliding of the skies. |
1:11 |
| 32. |
The stars are ranged across the inner shell of a vast hollow sphere in which hung the earth. |
0:48 |
| 33. |
All the gardens will concur. Here is the mixed engine. |
0:59 |
| 34. |
I will build other gardens, other engines. |
0:58 |
| 35. |
And the light falls on the circular arcs. |
1:03 |
| 36. |
Beneath this circle is an arc of masonry steps for the convenience of observers. |
1:00 |
| 37. |
Threads can be pegged to the centre of each quadrant and semicircle to enable observation. |
0:57 |
| 38. |
Here is a huge vertical right-angled triangle made of stone. |
1:02 |
| 39. |
These arcs are also accessible by numerous flights of stairs. |
0:59 |
| 40. |
We are closer to the sun now. |
0:59 |
| 41. |
On the West face is described a semicircle of nineteen-feet, ten-inch radius. |
1:00 |
| 42. |
Into this chamber no ray of light can find its way except through two small squares high in the South wall. |
1:00 |
| 43. |
The movement of the engines produces a scent. |
0:58 |
| 44. |
Sixth Memory. |
0:56 |
| 45. |
Pointing towards the pole an iron pin is fixed at right angles to the centre of a dial. |
0:59 |
| 46. |
Some of the calibrations are now submerged beneath the ground and cannot be read. |
1:01 |
| 47. |
This room is a lidless drum. |
1:02 |
| 48. |
Seventh Memory. |
0:57 |
| 49. |
Near the bottom of the wall facing the South side of the eastern hemisphere there is a hole. |
1:59 |
| 50. |
There are arcs made of marble which are calibrated with inlaid lead in degrees and minutes. |
2:01 |
| 51. |
I have seen charts sent from Portugal but they are flawed and full of error. |
1:01 |
