Steve, Bob, and everyone,
I do not think I have ever seen 0 on a sundial, nor on a clock.
I seem to remember a sundial which had an Arabic 12 with all other numerals
Roman - or was it vice versa? - but cannot think where. I would say that in
England the simple cross + or cross pattee (more
I do not think I have ever seen 0 on a sundial, nor on a clock.
I seem to remember a sundial which had an Arabic 12 with all other numerals
Roman - or was it vice versa? - but cannot think where.
a 0 together with roman numerals doesn't sound logic: the romans did not
know the number 0 !
At 10:40 AM 7/19/00 +0100, Andrew James wrote:
Steve, Bob, and everyone,
I do not think I have ever seen 0 on a sundial, nor on a clock.
The dial on my deck rail has a nought for noon. It is a standard garden
shop horizontal dial, a cheap imported brass casting given to me years ago
I have recently seen a couple of dials which use a nought (a digit zero) in
place of XII, whereas the rest of the hour labels are in their usual roman
numeral forms. In other words, they run VI, VII...XI, 0, I, II...VI. One
dial is from the 1950s and the other from the 1960s. They are both
Hi All,
Steve Lelievre wrote:
I have recently seen a couple of dials which use a nought (a digit zero) in
place of XII,... I've never seen this done on a clock,...
I am a clockmaker. I have repaired a lot of clocks and I have never seen
it on a clock either.
I suggest that the proximity
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From: Steve Lelievre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 18 July 2000 15:29
Subject: Nought at noon
I have recently seen a couple of dials which use a nought
Bob, Steve, et. al.,
I have no knowledge of the origin of the practice of using
zero to mark noon, but there is as much logic as for
twelve, since it is the beginning, or zero, for P. M. hours,
and so can be expected to precede hours 1, 2, etc..
by an hour, especially with the sun's
