Greetings once more, fellow dialists, It seems to me that in the same way as we have difficulty in naming various forms of time (local apparent time, zonal true time, etc.) we lack words to describe your ordinary run-of-the-mill sundial. We have mass dials, analemmatic dials, even the Foster-Lambert dial that Fer de Vries recently very kindly identified for me, but what is the right generic name for modern vertical and horizontal dials that have the gnomon parallel to the earth's axis? I use "gnomon dial" when distinguishing modern common-or-garden dials from mass dials but this is not exact, of course, as most dials have had gnomons since classical times. Any suggestions?
Regards, Frank -- Frank Evans
