Frank, Have a look inBSS bulletin 92.1, february 1992, an article by Girolamo Fantoni, Italy. Using the method mentioned you should be able to draw moondials. Best wishes, Fer.
Fer J. de Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iae.nl/users/ferdv/ Eindhoven, Netherlands lat. 51:30 N long. 5:30 E ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:54 PM Subject: moon dials > Greetings fellow dialists, > I am wondering if anyone is engaged with moon dials these days. I am not > thinking of sundials with tables of correction for the moon such as the > famous dial in Queens College, Cambridge but something like the > remarkable horizontal sun and moon dial made in Wales in 1803 by Isaac > Morris, where the corrections to the sun hour shown by the moon's shadow > are applied graphically. Any takers? Just curious, having been mightily > impressed by Morris's dial on the recent BSS tour of North Wales. > Frank, 55N 1W > -- > Frank Evans >
