Dear Patrick, > Yes that's right but I think that John has abandoned his idea of an > analemmatic dial in favour of this suggestion of a conventional horizontal > dial but one without a gnomon. Instead of a gnomon he would use a human > standing at the correct spot for his height. This person's head would > therefore form a nodus whose shadow would fall on hourlines drawn from the > dial's origin.
> I only know of one such dial in the UK but there may be more in the US. You made us curious. Where is that dial to be found? Regards, Frans ===================================== Frans W. Maes Peize, The Netherlands 53.1 N, 6.5 E www.biol.rug.nl/maes/ =====================================
