Hi Mac et al,
You are, of course, completely right - you can turn a polar dial around its
gnomon to make allowance for the EoT - my humble apologies. It isn't intuitive
(to me, at least) that this should work and I foolishly made my comment without
experimenting or doing the maths. I have
Hi Fred et al,
I too saw this posting and contacted the chap who posted it. From his
description, this is definitely NOT one of the set of four dials that John
Rowley made for Blenheim Palace c1710.
In fact, I strongly suspect that what he has is one of the 20C Pearson-Page
reproductions.
Our sundial business regularly receives questions via our Website, (mainly
from pupils wanting us to help with school projects) - but I am forwarding
this one to the Sundial Mailing List, as it is more unusual than normal.
From: signelerin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 16:30:15
I presume that this dial was patterned after an equatorial dial with a polar
gnomon.
That's a good theory, Roger, but it doesn't explain why its latitude arm is
graduated backwards and has too limited a range or degrees!
This poor creature is like some Frankenstein's monster.
But I am
Like this one Roger?
Click on:
http://www.sundialsculptures.com/content/examples/thick-gnomon.html
John
John L. Carmichael Jr.
Sundial Sculptures
925 E. Foothills Dr.
Tucson Arizona 85718
USA
Tel: 520-696-1709
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: http://www.sundialsculptures.com
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PREI have taken up the challenge of a desk-top polyhedral dial with Esther
Hope
and work is progressing nicely! She is very content with work done so far.
David Brown
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Hi Steve and others,
I tried to make light talk about the little Frankenstein Sundial by The
Nobel Collection in my first email (remember the hubbub over the DST human
analemmatic?) but inside I was really pissed off for three reasons:
1. They cheated my friend, the person who gave it to me
Hello John:
A 'Whois on their web page turns up:
Registrant:
NOBLE COLLECTION (NOBLECOLLECTION4-DOM)
21731-B Filigree Ct.
ASHBURN, VA 20147
US
Domain Name: NOBLECOLLECTION.COM
Administrative Contact:
NOBLE COLLECTION (NC2808-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NOBLE COLLECTION
