Hello Frank,

all altitude sundials use only the Sun’s altitude.

Since the altitude   is measured on a vertical circle "movable" with the
Sun, a sundial that bases its action on it  has to be "movable" or to have
some movable part  around the vertical axis:  in general the whole sundial
can rotate around  it.

For this reason all the altitude sundials must have:
1 - many hourly  curves and the gnomon that is moved on the day of observation.
For example the shepherd s., the ring s., etc.
2 - many seasonal curves and the gnomon mobile. When the shadow of its extreme
meets the line of the day, the position of his foot gives the hour.

3 -  hourly and seasonal curves, these often straight line segments, and a
fixed gnomon. For ex. the famous Portici Ham sundial.



So you cannot have an altitude sundial with a single curve on which the
hours are placed (that is,  hourly lines reduced to points) as in
analemmatic.

Analemmatic   are never altitude sundials, even if they are built on a vertical
wall.



A sundial that perhaps is close to what you have described is, for example,
a shepherd s. with the cylinder surface developed on a plane, like the one
in the picture.

Best

Gianni Ferrari

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