Hi Frank,
Thanks for your kind comments on the Bulletin cover.
I think you are a little harsh on the Downing Site polyhedral dial: I don't
know of many dials with a gnomon pierced with the outline of a camel (alluding
to eye's of needles, perhaps?!) or which shows so well that the
If others are interested in what the Cambridge Polyhedron dial looks like, I
have posted my picture of it at www.walkingshadow.info. Click on Images and
then CamPoly.jpg. The picture is compressed for the web, only about 103 kb.
I suppose the sundial is multifaceted to reflect Cambridge grads.
Dear Dialers,
While we are on the subject of rotating dials around their gnomons or other
lines parallel to the earth's axis ( Or not so very far off of the subject )
Other
things can be accomplished by the rotation as well as EOT, Longitude and
Daylight savings compensations. For instance a
