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:

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> hi all,
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> I draw inspiration from the image sent by Brian Albison for a meditation.
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> I often found analemmatic sundials with the analemma. Has it a sense ?
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> Standing on the analemma one can get the right correction for eot only at 
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> 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.
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> 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 ?
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> ciao Fabio
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> Fabio Savian
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> Inviato da Tablet Samsung.
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> -------- 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 
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> Hi folk
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> 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).
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> Brian Albinson
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> Len Berggren
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> Vancouver, Canada
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