Re: Seeking information about a topiary sundial at Ascott House, Buckinghamshire, UK
Patrick, Patrick and Frans, So, it's just a horizontal dial with the tip of the topiary tree acting as a nodus? I see now that you're right, even if it's a little disappointing! Thanks, Steve On 2019-10-03 8:15 a.m., Steve Lelievre wrote: ... Ascott House. ... The gnomon has a fairly strange shape so I guess that either only the top part or only the bottom part is functional, but even then I can't figure out what it does. ... --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
Seeking information about a topiary sundial at Ascott House, Buckinghamshire, UK
From my daily Google digest message, I just learned of the existence of topiary sundials. A web search then led me to the example at Ascott House. There's a nice photo of it at http://www.siteandinsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ascott-3-of-14.jpg The gnomon has a fairly strange shape so I guess that either only the top part or only the bottom part is functional, but even then I can't figure out what it does. Is this some kind of azimuthal dial - maybe even just using the crude approach of 15 degrees per hour? Cheers, Steve --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
