At 11:53 AM 2/13/98 -0500, you wrote: >Fellow Dialists, > >Since the question of the "World's Largest Dial" has been recurrent on the >list, might I submit that the largest is an (approximately) spherical dial, >a little more than 12,700 kilometers in mean diameter, and is located here. > (Wherever you choose to designate "here.") As with smaller spherical >dials, there are quite a number of possible arrangements for conveniently >reading this dial. Because of its large size, there is sufficient space >for multiple gnomons and reading scales, of varied design and construction. > >As this is also the "World's Oldest Dial," details of its precise date of >construction and the name of its builder(s) are not readily determined. >Attempts to interpret various cryptic or partially effaced markings as date >and signature, have not yet led to general consensus on these points. > >Lest the champions of other claimants for "World's Largest" argue that this >dial should be disqualified as not "man made," I submit that while the >material "World" part referred to may not have been made by man, the "Dial" >part is a human conception and construct. As for the rest, other candidate >dials are merely rearrangements of material constituents of the larger >dial. > >(I beg the question of whether the candidate dials' sizes should be >expanded by approximately 149.6 million kilometers, mean value, to include >the illumination source for each of them.)
Bravo Bill This is the best and biggest Sundial ever made. Slawek - Slawek Grzechnik http://home.earthlink.net/~slawek/ 32 45.5' N, 117 01.4' W
