In a message dated 10/19/2002 4:05:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> She dosn't however consider that the digital sundial should be recorded > as an entirely new design. It is a read-out of the conventional vertical > sundial and just a convenient addition to help in the ease and accuracy > of reading a dial face of an ordinary sundial, she sais Please note that she does not say this in her article. She does not mention digital dials at all, so perhaps this is from a private communication between Mr. Leenders and Ms Stanier. But I do agree that a digital dial deserves recognotion as a new form of dial. First of all, it is not a vertical dial--The only places on earth that this design functions in a vertical position is at either pole. Secondly, it is radically different from any prior sundial design. I heard Robert Kellog speak about this design at the NASS convention in 2001, and it is clear that this design is the product of highly original thinking, applied with great care and effort to modern day materials, and bears little mathematical and no mechanical relationship to traditional dials. The only thing that a digital dial has in common with a hoizontal or vertical dial is that they all measure right ascention--Hardly a disqualifying factor for a distinct type of dial. Bill Gottesman -
