Greetings, fellow dialists,
Ian Maddocks asks what dials are on whole number lat/long lines.
During the BSS tour of Austria in 2002 we visited a pillar dial
labelled "Nieder osterreich" which claimed to be exactly at 48 deg N,
15 deg. E. It is recorded in " Austria 2002; a sundial safari.
/Bulletin of the British Sundial Society, /14, 3,//104-109, 2002"with
the following: "But following the Royal Society's motto /Nulius in
verba/ ("don't believe a word of it") our party produced several GPS
machines and the monument' position was found to be a couple of thou.
out. The suggestion that there were enough of us present to shift it
to the correct location was reluctantly rejected."
Frank 55N 1W.
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