Included in the bad sundials list should be sundials, which were
properly constructed for the location but improperly installed or
improperly re-installed after cleaning or refurbishment. I happened to
notice one I think falls in the latter category on the way to the
terminal at Heathrow
John Carmichael wrote:
I think Mike Shaw has a posting somewhere of horribly wrong sundials. Mike
are you there?
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Hi John and everyone.
Yes, I'm still alive and watching the list with interest.
You're right (as usual), but I think you are remembering a short
On 12/03/2011 19:39, Brent wrote:
Hello again;
I hope I am not trying your patience with my endless questions.
Today I am thinking about all of the mistakes that I have made in my
thinking about sundial designs. The motions between the sun and earth
are more complicated than I first thought.
For most errors on sundials there is an explanation.
Sometimes the cause is a mystery.
As for the special sundial in Company's Garden in Cape Town (South Africa)
see http://www.wijzerweb.be/kaapstad.html
(note that in the southern hemisphere the sequence of hour numbers on a
horizontal dial is
Hello again;
I hope I am not trying your patience with my endless questions.
Today I am thinking about all of the mistakes that I have
made in my thinking about sundial designs. The motions
between the sun and earth are more complicated than I first
thought.
I wonder if lots of people make
no professional indemnity insurance
the submission of the working model can be used to secure acceptance of the
design (and hence limit the risk for the designer) without the expense of
professional insurance.
Patrick
From: Brent
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 7:39 PM
To: Sundial List
Subject: bad
Brent,
In my province, where I know about all sundials the biggest blunder in terms of
time difference between the indicated time and the actual time, is an
equatorial sundial with the hour digits in reverse order.
He may be right in the southern hemisphere.
See
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Subject: bad sundials
Hello again;
I hope I am not trying your patience with my endless questions.
Today I am thinking about all of the mistakes that I have
made in my thinking about sundial designs. The motions
between the sun and earth are more complicated than I first
thought.
I
