If one draws a line connecting like hours on the dial on this page:
arcs curving to the left are created. They aren't concentric circles exactly, but without seeing an image of the dial, that's the best I can come up with. (As you can tell, I haven't been at dialling nearly as long as most people on this list).
On a web page in Italian, I seem to remember seeing a moon dial with the curves representing each hour. It is saved on my other computer, but that's a few hours from where I am. And I can't find the page right now. Does anyone out there know the one I'm talking about?
For my own edification, I'd appreciate it if the two people mentioning this type of dial would send an image or two.
Thank you,
Albert Franco
36N 95W
Roger Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Frank,
I share your puzzle. A friend of mine also sent a picture of the San
Gimignano dial. I have been unable to interpret it as a sundial. The
cardinal points and scrolling circles might serve some function for a
horizontal sundial but they make no sense if this is suppose to be a
vertical declining dial.
Can I send you a fuzzy scanned enlargement of the photo as a 328 kb bit map
(.bmp)?
Roger Bailey
Walking Shadow Designs
N48.6 W 123.4
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frank Evans
Sent: August 8, 2004 5:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: italian dial
Greetings fellow dialists,
Can anyone please help me to decipher this: I have been sent a picture,
by a friend, of an Italian presumed dial on the wa! ll of Sant' Agostino
church in San Gimignano, Tuscany. It has a horizontal gnomon which is a
simple shaft. Around it are drawn eight circles which are not concentric
but each touching the next circle outwards at one point, mostly
horizontally, alternatively left and right but the inner circles
touching at 45 degrees to the horizontal. Additionally there are two
rather flat ellipses drawn obliquely round the centre point. What I take
to be cardinal points, the letters N, S, E and O are marked as well as
the intercardinals E, T and C (nothing for south-east).
My friend writes that the dial faces roughly south south east. There are
no hour marks. My picture is a close-up and I am unable to guess a
scale. I am totally baffled. Any suggestions?
Frank 55N 1W
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Frank Evans
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