May I suggest you to have a look at Orologi Solari ?
It includes two different tools for wall declination measurement.
It could maybe help you.
Greetings.
Gian
http://digilander.libero.it/orologi.solari
Messaggio originale
Da: ka...@karonadams.com
Data: 01/08/2011 17.36
A: "Bill
THIS is the kind of thing I have been looking for! The kinds of techniques that
make the complex math work simply.
Cathedrals were built a thousand years ago by people who had little more
literacy than needed to do their jobs. None of them knew what a sine or cosine
or tangent was. They knew
>
> The other problem with Sundials is, among folks who are enthusiastic as
this group,
> the sundial is often so precise, it would not work in another place. So,
selling it
> would be very close to useless. The only people who can really use it are
the ones
> who are to live in the house next. S
About 10 years ago I worked out a simple method to measure wall
declination using just a carpenter's square and an accurate watch.
The methods is described here http://www.precisionsundials.com/wall%20declination.pdf,
and a simple windows program that does all the calculati
