Thanks Frank. I will correct the waymarks based on your comments.

Enjoy the Tour de France. They also have a stage in the heart of the Zarbula zone, day 14 Grenoble to Risoul. I checked my map showing all the remaining Zarbula Sundials and could not identify any that are on the specific tour de France route. See www.tinyurl.com/ZarbulaSundials

Regards, Roger Bailey


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From: "Frank King" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 2:14 AM
To: "Roger Bailey" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Tour de Sundials

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



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