No it was not an Egyption dial. It was a round horintal dial,
greenish in colour, I guess bronze.
At 22:00 19-8-2013, Willy Leenders wrote:
Thibaud,
I did not see the broadcast but read the English subtitles at this
address:
<http://tvguide.lastown.com/bbc/preview/precision/the-measure-of-all-things-1-time-and-distance.html>http://tvguide.lastown.com/bbc/preview/precision/the-measure-of-all-things-1-time-and-distance.html
It is apparently the Egyptian sundial from 1500 BC.
On my website you can see an article about this sundial.
In Dutch:
<http://www.wijzerweb.be/egypte.html>http://www.wijzerweb.be/egypte.html
In English:
<http://www.wijzerweb.be/egypteengels.html>http://www.wijzerweb.be/egypteengels.html
Willy Leenders
Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)
Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg
(Flanders) with a section 'worth knowing about sundials' (mostly in
Dutch): <http://www.wijzerweb.be>http://www.wijzerweb.be
Op 19-aug-2013, om 20:49 heeft Thibaud Taudin Chabot het volgende geschreven:
Yesterday (sunday) I saw the first part of the new BBC serie "The
story of measurement" on BBC4.
In it was a horizontal sundial of questionabvle design. The style
foot was situated on the XII mark and the shadow was crossing many hourlines.
I can't imagine that BBC didn't do any serious research and used a
fancy sundial and even didn't notice that the shadows weren't
matching the hourlines.
Or did my TV having troubles? You never know in this digital era.
Thibaud
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