that be, the right way up?).
Peter Tandy
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From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de]
On Behalf Of Tony Moss
Sent: 19 February 2011 08:55
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: Re: upside down world
On 17/02/2011 23:06, Peter Mayer wrote:
Hi Brent
On 17/02/2011 23:06, Peter Mayer wrote:
Hi Brent,
If you've not seen it before, you may enjoy the 'Universal
Corrective Map' (pinched from: www.odt.org/southupmaps.htm)
best wishes,
Peter
Hi Peter,
I do like that concept, especially because it would make
trips from
09 N.0° 07 40 W.
From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On
Behalf Of Frank King
Sent: 18 February 2011 07:59
To: bren...@verizon.net
Cc: Sundial List
Subject: Re: upside down world
Dear Brent,
You have started an interesting train of
thought
Dear Jackie,
That is an interesting observation...
... I moved from London to Brighton...
In London it seemed usual to say it's on
the left of the street, but here on the
coast, far more people say it's on the
east side.
Next time I am in Brighton I shall test the
natives.
The natives
I like this corrective map.
http://www.insitumixing.com/website4/corrective-map.pdf
But I wonder if it would help if we also flopped it, so the
sun rises on the right, where we all know it does.
http://www.insitumixing.com/website4/corrected-corrective-map.pdf
Now we are getting somewhere.
The Catholic Encyclopedia has an interesting article on church
orientation, including a mention of St. Peter's: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_%281913%29/Orientation_of_Churches
.
-- Richard
On 19-Feb-11, at 11:47 AM, Frank King wrote:
Dear Jackie,
That is an
Hi Bret,
Thanks for your posting and interesting correction to the map.
However: do get out your globe again! If in your imagination you face
the southern pole, you'll then see that the sun arises on your _Left_!
That's why the hour numbers on dials in the Southern Hemisphere run
Dear Brent,
You have started an interesting train of
thought. You, and others who have replied
to you, should dig out the February 2011
issue of Scientific American and read the
article:
How Language Shapes Thought
This is subtitled:
The languages we speak affect our
Hello again;
For fun I removed my globe from its' frame and re-inserted
it upside down. Now Antarctica is at the top.
I suppose nothing has really changed except my point of view.
I notice that when I change south to north, east is now on
my left as I look north. This is disorienting to say
I bought an armillary-sphere style sundial at a garden centre in
Holland many years back. When I got it home, I discovered it was
intended for use in the southern hemisphere as the hours on the
hour-marker band were wrong. But flipping it over had them correct.
Unfortunately, one has to
Perhaps if the cradles of civilisation had been in the southern hemisphere,
our clocks would all go round the other way.
Incidentally, I am surprised by how many television adverts in the UK show
the sun rising or setting the wrong way.
Do you suppose a lot of the filming is done in
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From: Mike Shaw jmikes...@ntlworld.com
To: bren...@verizon.net; Sundial List sund...@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 2:48 AM
Subject: Re: upside down world
Perhaps if the cradles of civilisation had been in the southern
hemisphere, our clocks would
I was borne in the northern hemisphere and lived there for 22 years. I got
use to reading maps where north is on top, south is on the bottom, west is
on the left, and east is on the right. So far so good. I also got use to the
equator is south of me, the ocean is west of me, and inland is to the
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