Greetings fellow dialists, In reply to Anselmo there is a sketch and account of the meridian dial in S. M. degli Angeli in Rome in "The Sun in the Church" by J. L. Heilbron, Harvard University Press, 1999. The hole is 20.5 m above the ground. Frank 55N 1W
>Dear dialists, > >As you all know, a Meridian Dial is a sundial with only one hour line: >that of noon, >which coincides with the meridian or N-S line if we measure local time. >In Europe you can find them in some temples, the most outstanding ones >being these: > >Date Height Temple City >================================= >1437 50 m Holy Sophie Istanbul >1468 90 m S. Maria del Fiore Firenze >1653 27 m S. Petronio Bologna >1743 26 m S. Sulpice Paris >1786 24 m Duomo Milano > >By 'Height' I mean the height of the (pinhole) nodus from the ground in >meters. > >Now my question is: does anybody know about some other remarkable >meridian lines, >maybe in other continents, maybe modern ones, or showing mean time, etc...? > >Best regards, > >Anselmo > > >- -- Frank Evans -
