Dave,

I believe the newer edition of Mayall/Mayall covers the Lambert dial.  I've
been on a campaign to make sure that Foster is given due recognition for
having come up with the dial more than a century before Lambert.  The dial
is usually shown as a horizontal with a movable gnomon at an angle equal to
45 degrees plus half the latitude.  The gnomon moves in a slot similar to
the analemmatic dial (but different scale).  Hour points are equispaced
around the circumference.  

Some of the discussion noting how the Tercentenary dial can be viewed as a
Foster dial appears in my article "Samuel Foster of Gresham College" in the
Bulletin of the British Sundial Society, Feb 1997, 97(1):2-15.   For a
derivation of the Foster dial and a self-orienting variant of it, see my
article "A Self-Orienting Equiangular Sundial" in Bulletin of the British
Sundial Society, Oct 1991, 91(3):24-25.


Fred Sawyer

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