Finally someone came to the point! Well done Fred Sawyer! Reinhold Kriegler
* ** *** **** ***** ****** ******* Reinhold R. Kriegler Lat. 53° 6' 52,6" Nord; Long. 8° 53' 52,3 Ost; 48 m ü. N.N. www.ta-dip.de http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=XyCoJHwzzjU&fmt=18 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Fred Sawyer Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. April 2009 15:29 An: Sundial List Betreff: Interesting sundial in Japan Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems to me that this dial is getting more attention than it deserves. It looks to me to be one of those very expensive 'sculptures' made by an artist who really does not understand how a dial works. This dial is not made right - it will not indicate the correct time - the relationship between the plane of hour lines and the gnomon is all wrong. The markings don't appear to me to be braille-like. They are simply 3 pips on the hour and 2 pips every 10 minutes. The fact that some of the pips aren't visible is probably just a trick of lighting in this particular photo. As I said - unless I've missed something here - this is a 'dial' I would pass by without paying it any heed. Fred On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:29 PM, J. Tallman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Here is a dial in Japan that I thought some of you may find interesting: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sundial_bunkanomori_tokushima.jpg > > I have seen it a couple times in the past month while casually browsing for > sundial pictures, but I have never been able to find a good description for > it. Does anyone know about this dial? I would be interested in what some of > you think is really going on here, since this is a pretty unique > configuration. > > > Best, > > Jim Tallman > www.artisanindustrials.com > [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
