Dear John, One possibility to 'repair' the flaw in the Flandrau analemmatic dial is to remove (or ignore) the analemma and repaint the meridian line. This would restore it into a 'classical' analemmatic dial.
A second option is to quit the classical analemmatic principle and instead construct an approximative mean-time Longwood Gardens-type azimuthal dial. Maybe the most charming option in this case is the following: Repaint the meridian line and instruct visitors to stand on that line. Do not throw the analemma out, but reuse it as an EoT graph. To this end, make an EoT scale perpendicular to the meridian, and calibrate the scale in minutes of EoT. This would make it into an unique dial. It would enable the reading of local as well as civil time, and in principle exact, not approximative! As far as I know, there has been only one dial using this idea, made by the late Marinus Hagen in his garden. See my analemmatic sundial page, second thumbnail in the first row. That dial does not exist anymore. Kind regards, Frans ===================================== Frans W. Maes Peize, The Netherlands 53.1 N, 6.5 E www.biol.rug.nl/maes/sundials/ ===================================== -
