A basic question (I have not found an faq for this group). Can you
recommend a
book or books for someone wanting to make his first sundial?
Another good book for beginners which has detailed descriptions on how to
make several basic types of sundials (including complete materials lists with
I am trying to find information about how I might construct a sundial using a
person as the gnomon.
This kind is an analemmatic sundial which is described in several
introductory books to sundials. It gives the time by the suns azimuth.
Because the solar time is not only depending on the
My Sundials program can do this. Just let me know the height of the person,
your latitude, and your longitude, and I can generate a scale model of the dial.
The dial my program generates uses a fixed point for the gnomon, not the
moveable one Daniel referred to. If you have access to a
My Sundials program can do this. Just let me know the height of the person,
your latitude, and your longitude, and I can generate a scale model of the
dial.
That's the problem - you need to know the height of the person. But I
could guess that the sundial should be used by people different
