Dear Friends,

Another consideration for the placement of numerals is the direction
from which the dial would normally be read. 

I once made a dial that would be placed on a porch rail high above the
ground where it could not be read, or even accessed, from the south, and
I inverted the numerals. A "garden variety" dial located to the south of
a residence would also be approached from the north.

As a point of interest, it is said of clock and watch dials that we
don't read the numerals anyway, but the angle between the hands. Some
may recall the Cartier(?) wristwatch that had a black dial with nothing
but a diamond at 12.

The numerals are obviously necessary on a sundial as the viewer would
have no frame of reference. However, an ordinary viewer might not even
notice the orientation.

Tony, why don't you make up a design with the numerals as you propose
and let us have a look?

Bob Terwilliger

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