Thibaud Chabot
At 09:06 15-10-2002 -0400, you wrote:
Roger Bailey has adapted my MSworks (or, more aptly, MSdoesntworks)
spreadsheet for finding wall declination to Excel Format. It is available at
www.precisionsundials.com/software.htm, along with a word document explaining
the method.
-Bill
Hi Bill all,
I agree absolutely with you that the digital dial is an essential addition
to the art and science of dialing.
Also fiber optics or other means of transforming the usual shadow edge on
the dial face into whatever display form, add essentially to this.
In my view, however, the most
Yes. The WallDeclination.doc on the website complements the spreadsheet, and
specifies that this method works only for vertical walls.
-Bill
In a message dated 10/22/2002 3:39:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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I guess that you assume the inclination of the wall is
One of the most ancient sundials of my region is from 1744. It is a
horizontal garden dial situated in a convent garden.
The pole style is made of copper, the base is a piece of slate.
A peculiarity of this sundial: the a m hour numbers have been written
in reverse (or in mirror image)
( 6 7
When you are standing on a Analemmatic dial, the numbers and your shadow
go clockwise. It just seems natural that the date line should keep the
same format for the understanding of the users.
Besides, in the northern hemisphere, the user is faced north, not looking
down from the north as
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Deamicis-Roberts wrote:
When you are standing on a Analemmatic dial, the numbers and your shadow
go clockwise. It just seems natural that the date line should keep the
same format for the understanding of the users.
Besides, in the northern hemisphere, the user is
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Does somebody know what can be the cause of this anomaly?
I don't know the reason but it does occur sometimes on dial in the UK too,
though not usually with ALL such numbers reversed..
I have tended to assume that it is simply the fact
Maybe looked at through a mirror from inside, Walter
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Hello Willy
I read somewhere that sometimes latin figures on sundials have been written
in reverse only for have a good symmetry in the drawing.
François
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