Dear all I would like to ask your opinion on the first sundials which inspired gnomonic inventions developed through following centuries. In all literature available in my country it is repeated that the first dials were sticks set upright on sent or big trees and rocks casting shadow on earth. This allowed the first men to observe the shadow motions throughout the day. Well, I guess it is a way to describe the beggining.. yet it does not satisfy me - sounds pretty boring :) Considering the scaphe and other hemispheric dials of Greece there seems to be a vast gap between the above concept and those very sophisticated dials. Does any of the group members have any other perspective on how it all could really begin? (apart from any alien intervention theory). -- Best regards Darek Oczki 52N 21E Warsaw, Poland GNOMONIKA.pl Sundials in Poland gnomonika.pl
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