There is, if I recall, a pretty good writeup on this kind of anlemmatic dial in Mayhall's book. Obviously, the entire dial is scaled to the approximate height of the "gnomon", but it can be designed in any size, and adjusted as necessary.
Dave On Thu, 29 May 1997, Robin Hilp wrote: > Edward W. Trapolin wrote: > > discovery garden in New Orleans. We would like to design an > 'interactive' > horizontal sundial. This means that a person acts as > the gnomen. I have > heard that they exist in other children's gardens, > but have been unable to > locate information or articles on design and > construction. Do you have any > such articles? > There's an outfit in the UK that sells (internationally) plans for that > sort of thing. I think they're called Sun Clock. Someone posted info to > this list last? year and I got the sales literature at the time. It looked > like a good kit and not terribly expensive. Unfortunately I've lost the > info. If anyone has that reference, please re-post it. I'm relandscaping my > yard and have been toying with the idea of painting one on my driveway, now > that the trees are gone.
