Re: corrupt IgNoble instruments

2002-12-30 Thread John Carmichael
iginal Message - From: "Roger Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 9:23 PM Subject: RE: corrupt IgNoble instruments > I presume that this dial was patterned after an equatorial dial with a polar > gnomon. Sales were poor because it didn&

RE: corrupt IgNoble instruments

2002-12-30 Thread Sara Schechner
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 sure

RE: corrupt IgNoble instruments

2002-12-29 Thread Roger Bailey
I presume that this dial was patterned after an equatorial dial with a polar gnomon. Sales were poor because it didn't look like a sundial. Don't sundials have a triangular thingy called a gnomon? When the triangular gnomon was added, sales increased dramatically. It now looked like a real "sundia