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From: "Roger Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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&
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
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