Re: Lalande's Analemmas

2000-05-11 Thread Jean-Paul . Cornec
Roger It is exactly my feeling. Looking for sundials (hunting sundials) has lead me to discover places where, otherwise, I should have never gone or even suspected. Farms lost at the very end of small paths, or ,like you, splendid castles or old manors hidden from the usual tourists, with often

Re: analemmic vs. analemmatic

2000-05-11 Thread John Davis
Hi John. In the BSS Glossary, I have defined an analemmic dial either as the one you describe, with analemmas on the hour lines, or as the type of dial which uses a gnomon with an analemma (or half-analemma) shape incorporated. This seems to fit with modern usage, and is a working definition