Exactly. This article confuses "valuable" with "expensive"!
Make a garden non-dial of a carved solid diamond. Is it valuable? Or just ostentatiously costly. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Bailey Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 8:47 PM To: Sundial List Subject: Most Valuable Sundial? I happened to come across this obscure link to the Guinness Book of Records for the "most valuable sundial". http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_Most-valuable-sundial/blog/145878 5/7691.html Perhaps, but define value. Is it cost? tons of bronze and gold plating, man hour of construction? I think not. This sundial is a replica. Perhaps the original was much more valuable, historically, culturally, scientifically. Value is not the cost to reproduce. I have designed a sundial to reproduce at a different location the famous sundial designed by Ibn Al Shatir in Damascus in 1371, a complex sundial, the first sundial with a polar gnomon. Mine is a fine sundial but the original is valuable. Are there other nominations for the "most valuable sundial". Regards, Roger Bailey "Life's but a Walking Shadow....."
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