Fabio,
The misconception you justifiably complained was already in use when sundial illiterates added a analemma loop to the oldest known analemmatic sundial in Bourg-en-Bresse (France) at the monastery of Brou. 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 Op 16-aug-2016, om 18:23 heeft fabio.savian het volgende geschreven: > > hi all, > > I draw inspiration from the image sent by Brian Albison for a meditation. > > I often found analemmatic sundials with the analemma. Has it a sense ? > > Standing on the analemma one can get the right correction for eot only at > noon. > Most of these sundials don't report a warning about it, so the users get a > wrong time al the day, except noon. > Moreover some of them haven't the calendar on the meridian line but only on > the analemma, so the misunderstanding is sure. > > The use of a table with the eot should solve the curiosity to get the mean > time, so I wonder why this kind of sundial is knowspreading with the analemma > while it is not suitable for this. > Do you where this use come from ? > > ciao Fabio > > Fabio Savian > > Inviato da Tablet Samsung. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------- Messaggio originale -------- > Da: Brian Albinson <[email protected]> > Data: 16/08/2016 18:04 (GMT+02:00) > A: Sundial Group <[email protected]> > Oggetto: Double analemma dials > > Hi folk > > We have built 3 direct reading mean time double analemma dials, > (including the Highlands School dial) in the Vancouver area and are > curious to know if any others exist in the world (apart from the > Longwood dial). > > Brian Albinson > > Len Berggren > > Vancouver, Canada > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >
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