Among
the sundials of the ancient Islam - made before 1500 - the only one with a polar
style is that, already mentioned by Fer de Vries, drawn by Ibn al Shatir in 1372
and placed at the base of the minaret of the great Umayade mosque in
Damascus. The existing sundial, with a beautiful
A couple of months ago, Mike Cowham asked the SML for an explanation of the two small dots or holes seen on the dialplates of antique horizontal dials, just where the tip of the gnomon meets the dialplate. Several suggestions were made, such as their use as alignment marks to position the gnomon.
Hello All:
After nearly two years of work, my large stained
glass sundial (The Gecko Dial) is finally installed in the bay window
thatwe made especially for it at my home in Tucson. It is only the
2ond permanently installed stained glass sundial in the United States.
(The other one is in a
