It is unfortunate that the cooperation of the sculptor was not obtained in order to make the legs of the diver a proper polar style. Surely the latitude of 53d 58m would have been enough for the form desired. The sculpture almost makes it although the dive would have made a whopping splash!
Claude Hartman 35N 120W Tony Moss wrote: > John Carmichael wrote: > >> List member, Michael Harley, just showed me this other type of human >> horizontal sundial (although the human is a statue): >> >> http://www.blackrockvillage.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=92&layout=blog&Itemid=78 >> >> <http://www.blackrockvillage.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=92&layout=blog&Itemid=78> >> >> In this beautiful dial, the human’s body is bent so that it becomes a >> polar axis gnomon instead of using the top of a human’s head as a >> nodus-based horizontal sundial. >> >> > I'm puzzled by this dial. Certainly there is an *imaginary* polar axis > line from the dial origin to the tip of the beautifully sculptured > figure but the only physical item on that line is the said tip. In > summer with high sunpaths I can see the tip acting like a nodus but in > winter surely the tip shadow will be well outside the dial plate. Have > we got to imagine a shadow joining tip and origin. Or am I confused by > the scale of the thing? > > Tony Moss > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
