<<If you go to Mike Shaw's page http://www.wiz.to/sundials/  and click on "more favorites" I think that the Sir Isaac Newton dial shown there us using the index finger as a gnomon with the "book" as the dial.>>
 
Not quite. 
John Davis' dial shows Isaac Newton holding a triangle (representing a prism) with a hole in the centre which projects a spot of light onto the dial face.
 
By coincidence, just above the picture is a "John Carmichael", and just below it is an "Aten"
 
Mike Shaw
 
53.37N
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