Alison,
I think the only solution for Mr. Phillips is to create a new timesystem ;-)
Thibaud
At 19:57 03-06-2008, Alison Shields wrote:
Dear Sundial Experts,
I have recently joined this Mailing List, and hope that any members
will be able to give me some assistance on the following situation.
Dear Dialists,
I reported several times to this list on the Horizon Observatory to be
planned on top of the Hoheward coal mine dump near Recklinghausen in the
Ruhr industry district. Plans are coming true sometimes. The construction
work is actually in progress.The inauguration is scheduled for S
king forward to all comments (to this List, or sent privately).
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Mr. Philips can insist as much as he likes. However,
you might ask if he is related by ancestry to King
Canute. Same end result, won't and didn't work.
You might consider an analemma on the true north south
line, however, it only blurs the issue, not solves it.
All dials are presentation devices
Hi Alison,
Executive summary: Mr. Phillips can't have it.
More detail:
the central scale of dates is a projection of the direction of the
Earth's axis. This fixes the direction of the date scale on a
horizontal dial to point along North-South. Nothing can be done about
it (other than tilting the
Since it's not April First, I can only conclude that this an outstanding
example of understated British humor, worthy of P.G. Wodehouse.
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Good luck, Alison!
I'll let the real experts address the weight of evidence, but you are
quite correct, and Mr. Phillips is wrong. While many types of sundials can
indeed be "adjusted" to operate in any location, they cannot be adjusted
to arbitrary orientation.
For the simplest argument you might
Dear Sundial Experts,
I have recently joined this Mailing List, and hope that any members
will be able to give me some assistance on the following situation.
Our local Stately Home ("Kentwell Hall", Long Melford, Suffolk) is
considering installing an Analemmatic sundial, as a new interactive
att
Dear All,
a new release of "Orologi Solari" is available at the address
http://digilander.libero.it/orologi.solari.
The main improvement in the program is the possibility of computing the
original project parameters (latitude, wall declination, style length etc.) of
an existing dial.
This is an
