Hello Frank and all,
Consider the third dimension, elevation
Google maps show the view from space of the plane (X,Y). Go to Google street
view for pictures showing the elevations (Z). The ring road around the
sundial is a flyover on piers for traffic going south east turning and
merging to head west. Street view pictures show lots of access for people
and cars under the flyover. People live there, work there, trying to eke out
a living.
Consider the fourth dimension, time. One street view picture shows the
incomplete flyover ending abruptly at a sign announcing the 2010
Commonwealth games. How has this site changed with time? How do people
observe time as they rush around the flyover ring? Perhaps this explains the
strange morning hour lines on the sundial accommodating people rushing past,
the kind of people that set their clocks ahead so they can avoid being late,
people that believe daylight savings time is useful.
The Institute of Driving and Traffic Research is across the road. Perhaps
this sundial is a research project on the time space continuum of Delhi's
roads and traffic.
In any case, celebrate the return of the sun, the winter solstice at 10:44
UTC 21 Dec 2016.
Best Regards, Roger Bailey
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From: "Frank King" <f...@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 12:31 AM
To: "Maes, F.W." <f.w.m...@rug.nl>
Cc: "Sundial Mailing List" <sundial@uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Re: Are there some Sundial Designers, in INDIA ?
Dear Frans,
I was interested and amused by your comments
on the Delhi sundial...
According to the newspaper article...
Huh! I live by two simple rules:
1. Never believe anything you read in
Newspapers without checking.
2. Never believe anything you read
anywhere else without checking.
I really ought to have a rule "1a" which
is "to be especially careful of newspapers
published in India." They seem very prone
to exaggeration: the suggestion that this
dial is "one of the largest scientifically
accurate sundials in the world" is typical!
This sundial most certainly does not
merit the attribution "accurate".
It seems to me to be flawed in many
respects. Most recent photographs
taken in the city seem to show a
very murky atmosphere: this sundial
rarely sees the sun!
The site is almost inaccessible
and it is a really good joke that,
surrounding this sundial, there are
many seats for people to sit on!
These seats will never be used
until there is a helicopter
service!
Very best wishes
Frank
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