frog

[Fabio Savian]

In these days I've completed a wooden prototype af an italic-babilonic sundial (http://www.nonvedolora.it/english/rana_en.htm). I showed it on sunday during an exihibition in my city (45° 34' N). I've designed it last year and it has a frog outline. It is a polar dial with a conical gnomon, but the cones are replaced by two spheres inscripted in the cones. In this sundial the hour lines and their numeric indexes are the same for co-italic and babilonic hours. The eyes are two semi-spheres (60 mm), the sundial indicates both the hours where the lines are tangent to the shadows. On the East side, the upper eye indicates hours from sunrise and the lower eye indicates hours to sunset. Vice versa on the West side. The frog is 54 cm (high) x 95 cm. (about 21 x 37 inches)   There some pictures in the web site above, soon I'll write the english text.   ciao Fabio Savian, Italy