Dear Roger, I much enjoyed your message and Reinhold's comment, also your tiny URL at:
http://tinyurl.com/CamSunTour The S. Botolph's dials have been much improved recently by regilding but I don't have a fresh picture. You have a good photograph of what you describe as: Polygon Sundial, Downing Quadrangle, Cambridge, UK I wonder whether you could tweak this a little... 1. A polygon is a plane figure. This is a POLYHEDRAL sundial, being three dimensional. [If you like you can say it is an elongated square gyro bicupola!] 2. There are absolutely NO quadrangles in Cambridge, not one. They do have them in Oxford. Here such a thing is called a "court". Sadly, you can't just change the word because that would be talking about Downing College. To reach the polyhedral sundial... Enter the Downing Site off Downing St though the gateway under the arch. Alas, this isn't the dial I was referring to. The one the Tour de France cyclists might glimpse is at Downing College. You can see it at the bottom of page two of: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fhk1/Sundials/WriteUps/CBsundialWalk.pdf At this moment I am almost in Lockdown. I can't cross the roads easily and there are helicopters making a dreadful racket right outside my window. It IS sunny and the few dials I have checked are looking fine! Frank --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
