Dear Reinhold and all, Andrew James has added detail and I can back up his supposition by quoting directly from the booklet, "Sundials" by Christopher St J Daniel, our former chairman of the BSS.
The figure shows one of the dials with the Westminster Tower in the background with Big Ben, and the figure caption reads: "A modern vertical direct-west dial on the church of St Margaret of Antioch, Westminster. Note that the gnomon lies parallel to the dial plate, both being parallel to the earth's polar axis. The dial is one of four, which overlook Parliament Square and Westminster Abbey. They are painted blue, with the numerals gilded in platinum, and were designed by the author. They were made by Brookbrae Ltd of London in 1982." The 56 page booklet is published by Shire Publications Ltd, and has had several editions and reprintings. The relatively low cost makes it popular in the book stands at tourist centres such as stately homes or English Heritage castles and centres of culture. Quite a number of the public have joined the Society as a result of being inspired by this booklet. Olympics. In addition to the successes we should note that one of our members, David Brown, was commissioned to make an analemmatic dial for the Olympic park. The dial is installed in a 'silver' garden using stainless steel numeral markers (there are special gardens with gold, silver and bronze themes). The construction was described at our April conference, with one of the inevitable problems imposed by the garden designers that the dial was to be partially surrounded by silver birch trees! I hope we will hear more about this dial and see some images. Regards, Doug On 1 Aug 2012, at 09:39, Reinhold Kriegler wrote: > Dear friends, > > did you see already the “sundial of the month August” at Joël Robic’s > splendid website on behalf of the Olympic Games… > > http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/cadrans-Londres-saint-margareth.html > > <image001.jpg> > > Regards, > Reinhold Kriegler > > > * ** *** **** ***** ****** ******* > Reinhold R. Kriegler > Lat. 53° 6' 52,6" Nord; Long. 8° 53' 52,3 Ost; 48 m ü. N.N. > GMT +1 (DST +2) www.ta-dip.de > http://www.ta-dip.de/dies-und-das/r-e-i-n-h-o-l-d.html > http://www.ta-dip.de/salon-der-astronomen/bewohner-des-salons-der-astronomen.html > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >
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