Mac Oglesby Contributed: >If you put the gnomon on a sliding block, you could then easily make >an analemmatic dial with hour lines. Just attach elastic cords from >the base of the gnomon rod to each hour point. Or, you could use >weighted strings which run from the gnomon's base, sliding through >holes at each hour point. > Genius Mac! Pure genius!
Isn't this just the distilled fascination of our wonderful interest? The analemmatic principle has been known and applied for centuries and suddenly here is an entirly innovative way of looking at it. The conventional wisdom of 'you can't have an analemmatic dial with hourlines' has just evaporated in a moment in dialling history. Tony Moss -
