Rule out Strasbourg.

I lived in Strasbourg for a year and know the cathedral well. The 15c clock
in the cathedral is not a sundial... It's an astronomical *clock*.

It's conceivable, mind you, that it might include a small detail that is a
sundial, sort of for comparison purposes. If so, it cannot be a working
dial. The clock is indoors, occupying pretty much the entire east wall of
the south transept, which is lit only dimly and indirectly by stained-glass
windows: very attractive but not conducive to gnomonics. (Liturgical east
and south, that's geographical north-east and south-east.)


Bill Thayer
   LacusCurtius
http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman

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