Pete To some extent you are right. If we limited ourselves to one kind of dials we would avoid few problems but the world of dialing would not be so fascinating. This is incredible how many ideas were introduced into sundials and every new design is a challenge for its creator how to solve geometric and other problems.
I looked at the dials on your pages, they are excellent. Slawek At 08:43 AM 9/27/99 -0600, you wrote: >Much has been written about the confusion of EOT corrections, longitude >corrections, and about people viewing a sundial and asking "But what time is it >really?" I am still in favor of the solution of building Equatorial sundials >with an Analemmic gnomon, so that the sundial always correctly indicates accurate >clock time, without need for graphs, tables or poems. > >(Please forgive my soap-boxing.) > >Regards, Pete S. >http://netnow.micron.net/~petes/sundial Slawek Grzechnik 32 57.4'N 117 08.8'W http://home.san.rr.com/slawek
