Re: A Tough One?

1999-07-13 Thread John Davis
Mike, I encountered a similar problem in analysing the stained glass dial from Wendon Lofts. Assuming that there are no signs of the gnomon support to define the sub-style angle on your dial, I would get a value of the declination from the asymmetry of the earliest and latest hour lines on the

A Tough One?

1999-07-13 Thread Mike Cowham
Dear Friends, I have a vertical east declining sundial that I believe was once fixed to a church building. Its gnomon is missing. What I wish to calculate is the latitude of the dial, and its declination. I am sure that it is a very easy problem to solve, but so far I have