Dear Fernando, Thank you for your wonderful, heart-warming story. I know exactly how you feel. I am puzzled by only one thing: Why was the sun rising above a house SOUTH of yours? Shouldn't that be EAST?
Your English is excellent. May I point out just one slight mistake which I believe you made. You refer to a "vertical inclining dial" where I think you mean a declining dial. It is most unfortunate that we use the word 'declination' to mean two unrelated things - the orientation of a vertical dial and the distance between the equator and a heavenly body such as the sun. The quite unrelated meanings of 'analemma' and 'analemmatic' could cause similar problems. Best wishes Chris Lusby Taylor -----Original Message----- From: Fernando Cabral [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 October 1998 18:23 To: [email protected] Subject: Chronicle on sundialling Dear Fellows in sundialling Based on certain accidental discoveries I had made yesterday, I waked up a little earlier this morning and walked to my back yeard to prepare for the sun to rise above the ceiling of a house south to mine. <snip> Now I was there, steping on a North-South line, facing the rising sun whose Azimuth was... 90 degrees. <snip>
