Beautiful dial and setting, Dick! But please explain for us: What's supporting all those turtles?!?
Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 1, 2015, at 3:53 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Here's an example of a dial with an equitorial band all around. > > http://www.dickkoolish.com/rmk_page/sundials/phillips_andover.html > > > > >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Dan-George Uza <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Tonight I saw the trailer for "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the >>> Window and Disappeared". >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-k7DUQPHfQ >>> >>> After the old man climbs out the window at 0:53 he walks past what >>> appears >>> to be a cast iron armillary sundial. However, as the equatorial band >>> seems >>> to completely circle the globe I think this piece would not show >>> time...at >>> least not around the equinoxes! >> Sure, some armillaries aren't sundials, but I'm sure that I've seen >> armillary sundials that had the equatorial band all the way around. IIf >> the >> band is of uniform width, then it won't tell time when the sun is >> *exactly* >> on the equator, but, even if the declination is the *least bit* non-zero, >> the gnomon will have a shadow on the hour-band. So I don't suppose that an >> armillary with an equatorial band would lose more than a few days of >> time-telling each year. >> >> Besides, maybe the upper part of the equatorial band is narrower than the >> lower part, as is sometimes the case. >> >> Michael Ossipoff > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
