I would like to purchase a "Sunquest Local Mean Time" dial build by
R. L. Schmoyer between 1950 and 1970. The dial uses a slotted gnomon
to correct for the equation of time. Cousins book "Sundials" contains a
picture of the dial on page 195 and a drawing on page 190-191. Does
anyone know of suc
fer j. de vries wrote:
>
> Someone wrote : ( I don't remember who it was, I don't save all the
> messages)
>
> > > Suppose a horizontal sundial at latitude 4º S. His gnomom is a very
> > acute
> > >square triangle. What happens with the shadow when sun's declination get
> > the
> > >other
David Higgon wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've reconsidered my previous submission! The sun will not cross from one
> hemisphere to the other, but will always be in one or the other. It's
> difficult to explain this without pictures, but you probably all saw this
> before I did.
I can send a sunpath
Dear all,
I've reconsidered my previous submission! The sun will not cross from one
hemisphere to the other, but will always be in one or the other. It's
difficult to explain this without pictures, but you probably all saw this
before I did. There is still the slight problem of the two days a
Sergio Doret wrote:
> Suppose a horizontal sundial at latitude 4º S. His gnomom is a very
acute
>square triangle. What happens with the shadow when sun's declination get
the
>other side of celestial equator? What happens at the july solstice, does
>the shadow
>make redable, correct indica
I am trying to decide what may have been the original of a sundial motto
of which about half is missing. It is in Italian and as far as I can
read it is
IO NON ebro {about 30-35 letters missing}ans LANgU{about 10 missing}cARE
LA CAMPANO IL FERRO MA RISPLENDE SOLE
where lower case is uncertain (
