Fer de Vries furnished Chuck O'Connell (and the rest of us) with what looked like a gratifyingly comprehensive list of dial furniture lines. He included an item called astrological houses. By this I wonder if he intended the Domifying Circles, or Circles of Position. These rather boring lines do appear on dials and indicate the first point of entry of the sun into the respective signs of the zodiac. A comprehensive account of one such dial in Devon, England, and a description of dom lines, as they are also known, was given by Chris Daniel in the Bulletin of the British Sundial Society for October 1992.
But caution; dial furniture can so easily be overdone. Take the famous dial in Queens' College, Cambridge as an example. Gazed on in awe by so many, it's really a mess, complete with moon dial table, lines illegible and lines that mean nothing, at least nobody, even Cambridge's finest, can understand them. And all mixed up. -- Frank Evans
