As XII is a large number 0 is often used for noon. Roger Bailey
Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Kurt Niel Sent: September 25, 2018 12:16 AM To: Steve Lelievre Cc: Sundial sundiallist Subject: Re: Hour label question 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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