At 04:32 PM 5/11/99 +0200, you wrote: >I just had the book 'Sundials' by Frank W.Cousins (actually a bad copy) in >my hand and saw on page 191 a drawing of the gnomon of the Schmoyer sundial >with many measurements. In my copy the numbers couldn't be red, but I guess >in the original of the book this should be possible. >Is that what you were looking for?
Thank you for your comments. Actually, the problem is not in how to design a gnomon for the Schmoyer sundial since it is not complicated mathematically. That gnomon is, however, very complicated mechanically, involving a pair of compound three-dimensional curves which must be fairly precisely aligned to the rotational axis of the gnomon. Besides, without Richard L. Schmoyer's pattern it would not be the Sunquest sundial. Laurel could have another pattern made from her father's wooden models. All that is required is time and money.
