1. About a website, I agree with "more light"; dials are there to be
enjoyed! and surely no one is going to steal the multi-ton behemoths in
full sight in large cities, dials high up on walls, painted dials, etc.
(I've taken a few pictures of dials in odd places in Italy, and will
contribute if this is useful to someone.)
A number of sundials are of course on the Web regardless of what we do. A
first step might be to catalog what's already online. I'd be interested in
funnelling URLs to anyone in charge of this type of project; it's someting
I'm good at.
2.
>Ah, but wait till governments learn that contributors to "sundial"
>are a wonderful bunch of freethinkers who explore the universe from
>all directions! Sounds like a dangerous group of radicals to me.
Plato, Cicero, C.S. Lewis and others have pointed this out; and governments
*do* know. Any group of people who think about something, and it doesn't
much matter what, are a potential threat to those who deal in power. (Let's
on keep on thinking...)
Bill Thayer
LacusCurtius
http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman
