Hi Roger, about the French Republican system I've a message from Fabio Garnero (Saluzzo, Cuneo, Italy, [email protected]). The sundial you have reported shows the French Revolution time but it is a modern sundial (1989). This sundial www.sundialatlas.eu/atlas.php?so=IT2810 is on a building of the XVII century and the sundial was built in the right time.
ciao Fabio Fabio Savian [email protected] Paderno Dugnano, Milan, Italy 45° 34' 10'' N 9° 10' 9'' E GMT +1 (DST +2) >>> Hi Brent, >>> >>> If you were in charge of things, we could call you Napoleon. What >>> you are proposing is the French Republican system, the metric >>> system applied to time, 100 grad for a quadrant, 90 degrees, 10 >>> hours a day, 100 minutes per hour, all totally rational. They even >>> produced clocks and sundials based on these rational, ok decimal, >>> systems. A few still exist. Here is my favourite example, a >>> Republican sundial with a relativistic correction. See >>> http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7ETZ_Republican_Sundial_Les_Vigneaux_Vallouise_Hautes_Alpes_France >>> >>> As this is a text message, paste the url into your browser to see >>> this fine sundial. >>> >>> Regards, Roger Bailey
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