To better understand the pros on this list, and another problem that I am
working on, I recently purchased a book: SUNDIALS - Their Theory And
Construction by Albert E. Waugh. It made an interesting read, and I would like
to share some of that - hope you will enjoy it too:
O God! methinks it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill, as I do now,
To Carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to see the minutes how they run,
How many make the hour full complete;
How many hours bring about the day;
How many days will finish up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live.
Shakespeare
King Henry VI, Part III, 2, v.
It was four o'clock according to my guess,
Since eleven feet, a little more or less,
My shadow at the time did fall,
Considering that I myself am six feet tall.
Chaucer
Canterbury Tales (Parson's Prolog)
...the shadow of each tree
Had reached a length of that same quantity
As was the body which had cast the shade;
And on this basis he conclusion made:
...for that day, and that latitude,
the time was ten o'clock
Chaucer
Canterbury Tales (Man of Law's Tale)---------------------------------------------------
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