Hi Dave,
Thanks for:
Introducing me to the web archive.org Wayback Machine.
Finding John's web pages on designing sundials. All his links worked for me
including the analemmatic/horizontal combination and the pdf translation.
Reminding me of those Saturday mornings long ago watching Rocky
Dave,
The WayBack Machine is truly a marvel! Thanks for pointing me to it.
The converter at
http://web.archive.org/web/20030202191330/http://www.cyberspace.org/~jh/dial/
doesn't seem to be working, though. I tried a latitude other than the
default 45 deg. and got ... 45 deg. The author warns
Hi Tom,
To make your personalized dial try to make .dxf files of both and combine
them in one drawing program.
Another easy way is to use Deltacad and its macro's.
There are macro's available at the NASS web site for both types of sundials.
Make changes to the basic output as you like to get
A colleague of mine, Shlomo Sternberg, is researching the timing of events
(like the birth of a child or the start of a new day) in Poland during the
18th and 19th centuries. His sources suggest that Italian hours were used
in Poland and Bohemia until sometime in the early modern period,
