I've read that there's evidence that the first accurate & precise timetelling sundials were in China.
Stone disks, marked like equatorial sundials, with a hole in the center that could be for a gnomon were found in China, dating to a time that's earlier than other sundials that have beenfound. Equatorial disk sundials supported by the disk and by the end of the gnomon on the ground are still in use. Michael Ossipoff On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Darek Oczki <dhar...@o2.pl> wrote: > 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 > http://gnomonika.pl > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > >
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