Hi Steve, my first thought: I (as XII) as single line to be correct at the noon line. Getting the geometrical center of XII is not that easy.
Kurt Steve Lelievre <[email protected]> schrieb am Mo., 24. Sep. 2018, 22:55: > > Today I visited a sundial that I had not viewed before. > > I got myself in quite a muddle when I tried to check its technical > quality. The first thing I looked for was a noon gap. There was none but > I noted the noon position was labeled with a roman number I, which I > took to mean the hours are numbered for Daylight Saving. So then, I > looked for the 7 am and 7 pm marks to check on gnomon positioning. > Nothing seemed right. > > After a moment of confusion I realized that the numbering is not > Daylight Saving - I had been misled by the use of roman I rather than > XII to label the noon position. In other words, the hour labels run ... > VIII, IX, X, XI, I, I, II, III ... > > There would have been enough space to use XII as the noon hour label. Is > the use of numeral I simply a mistake on the dial or could there be some > other explanation? > > Steve > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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