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

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