Message text written by "Henry Hatem" >The "human" dials I have seen at the gnomon point have a "ladder" painted on the ground marked off in height so if you are 5' you stand here and 6' up one "rung" 4' down one "rung"<
Excellent suggestion. I think you are referring to an interesting alternative version of the horizontal dial where the human's head effectively forms a nodus along the style of the 'non existant' gnomon. Thus taller people stand nearer the Noon mark and the shorter stand further away - the ladder scale being set so that the different heights of people form the sloping gnomon. Time is read by judgement of where the shadow of one's head falls among the hour lines. This idea may actually make it a little easier to design a workable dial for the lower latitudes. John C might like to consider it instead of a true analemmatic dial.... John, were you commissioned to design a 'human' dial of any appropriate design or does it have to be an 'analemmatic' one? Patrick
