Subject: Repeat posting
Sent: 17/9/02 1:21 PM
To: Sundial Mail List, [email protected]
Fellow Shadow watchers,
Apologies if you've seen this more than once - if at all
- but for some reason I didn't receive a circulated version via the SML so have
assumed it has gone astray.
Tony Moss
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Subject: USA Help reqired!
Sent: 16/9/02 11:59 PM
To: Sundial Mail List, [email protected]
Hi US Shadow Watchers.
I have a US client who contributed the following and then
asked me what the truth of the matter is - if anything?
>"....but the arcane bit of knowledge I had never heard before was that the man
>(name forgotten) who studied and then defined the "line" from which all North
>American sundials are "calibrated" (if that is the word) had established that
>geographic point in this city of Indianapolis."
>From this side of the ocean Indianapolis, with due respect, looks like an
>unlikely candidate for any longitudinal distinction. My 'Times' Atlas tells
>me that it lies at 39° 45' North and 86° 10' West which logically would seem
>to put it in the Central timezone (Reference Meridian 90° West) but my British
>Admiralty World Time Zone Chart seems to locate it in Eastern Time where the
>reference meridian is 75° West so that hardly suggests anything very clearcut.
Of course it could be a reference to something/someone much earlier before
transcontinental railways and timezones.
Any thoughts which might illuminate this?
Best wishes
Tony Moss
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