Moslem prayer times were originally determine using a human gnomon. These prayer times are based on a persons shadow length at noon and when the shadow length is the noon shadow length plus the persons height. For further background download my presentation "Timelines" given at BSS and NASS conferences. This is available at www.walkingshadow.info
Regards, Roger Bailey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Bateman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sundial List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 3:20 AM Subject: Analemmatic dials and the human gnomon > Any advice on the history of this type of dial will be appreciated. > > I have been contacted by a school project with the relatively simple > question, when did we start using the human as the gnomon? > > Setting aside 'pre-history' is it the more recent past? > > Regards, Doug > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
