Very nice dial. For it to be a person's height dial, don't you need to show where people of different heights must stand? These heights are marked on the Argyle Square dial in Australia (at least, I think they are). You have some nice photos on your web site of dials I have never seen before.
-Bill On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Chiu 邱,Chi lian <clc...@mx.nthu.edu.tw>wrote: > Dear All: > > I'd like to report a person's height sundial in PuLi (埔里), NanTou (南投), > Taiwan, Rep. of China. > It's located right at the main entrance of PuTai Senior High School > (普台高中), N23.9946, E120.9367 and is accomplished in the Spring of 2010 by > a young lady, Miss Chin-Li Lin (林秦立)，a landscape architect in Taiwan. > > As you see from the attached Google Earth picture, the "C" shaped broken > circle has a diameter of about 25 m. The white radiating lines within the > circle are hour lines made of granite. > For larger pictures of the sundial please go to > http://photo.xuite.net/nycl.chiu/1864525/75.jpg first. > There shows the first picture of a set of eight. Then type "c" to go to > the next and "x" to go backward. > > When one looks at this kind of dial for time, he'd be facing his shadow. > But the ladies in the last two pictures turned down this idea for then > their faces would be in shadow. They said: "Looking for time in that way, > being taken pictures in this way." Ha ha. > > Best, > > ChiLian Chiu > N25, E121 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > >
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