Many thanks to Frank and Frans for the information, which are now in my
intinerary.
Regards, Doug
On Oct 16, 2007, at 11:32, Frans W. Maes wrote:
Hi Doug,
A beautiful dial is in the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology. See www.fransmaes.nl/sundials, and in the Index choose H.
I stumbled across a cool 3-D view of a campbell stokes recorder here:
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/qtvr/ssr.html
You have to permit the Active-X control to view it
-Bill G.
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Campbell Stokes sunshine recorders are still available - I have one that I
bought a few years ago.
They are made by Fairmount Weather Systems of Cambridge, UK.
Their web site is:
http://www.fairmountweather.com/
Mike Shaw
53.37N
3.02W
www.wiz.to/sundials
There is a gentleman named K. P. Cheung of The University of Hong Kong who
has put together some very interesting pages on sundials. Note that
navigation on these pages is somewhat iffy. [Home] almost never seems to
work.
http://www.arch.hku.hk/~kpcheung/sundial/sun00.htm
Here is his personal
Hi Doug,
Are you also visiting Beijing? If not you should at least do an internet
tour of sundials in China, specifically Beijing. Two items of interest in
Beijing are the equatorial dial in the Forbidden City and the Beijing
ancient observatory. There are many pictures of the equatorial dial.
