neospace wrote: > > ---------- > > From: neospace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: sundials on net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Jordan (sundial) Schwartz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: question #2 > > Date: Wednesday, September 10, 1997 3:06 PM > > > > Hi Sir, > > > > If you would be so kind, I'm looking for a dialist that in Albert Waugh's > > book "Sundials, their theroy and construction", quoted and also showed > his > > design of a sundial. His name is Richard Schmoyer. In Waugh's book it > is > > on pages 33 and 34. .. .. > > William Gene Patrick.
I have seen a lot of dials with such a corrector for the equation of time. It can be used with a dial with an equiangular hourscale, as the equatorial dial is. In fact two correctors are necessary, each for half a year, because the curve of the EoT isn't symmetrical. The 2 can be cooperated in one body by using the 2 sides of it. In the book of Cousins page 190.. you find details of the corrector of Schmoyer. It is also possible to use 2 solid correctors. In tat case it isn't necessary to direct the corrector into the right position. Such a body arises if you rotate the half of the EoT curve. Fer de Vries, Netherlands.
