Hi Steve,
Good spotting! Thanks for the posting. I am pleased to see the sculptor
donated these pieces over 30 years ago. I would not want to pay for them
through a government grant. They are simple granite slabs aligned east west
swooping up east to west on the east coast, two triangle mid c
So, this is the western-most piece of the "arch". Sad that it appears to
have been broken.
Well, if the plane of the arch is oriented E-W, and it's vertical, as it
appears tobe, then the normal to the plane faces North, though no to
Polaris. He equinoctial; sunrises and sunsets would also be due E
Hello,
Has anyone encountered the set of sculptures called Sunsweep by David
Barr? It consists of three pieces at sites along the Canada-USA border
(Campobello NB, Point Roberts WA, Lake of the Woods, MI) and together
they are meant to represent a conceptual arch symbolizing friendship
betwee
Hi Fabio
This use of an analemma design on the analemmatic dial has been a confusing
error that goes back at least to the early 20th century introduction of the
curve on the dial in Brou, France. The use of a double analemma design
with curves calculated to limit error to just a few minutes throu
Fabio,
The misconception you justifiably complained was already in use when sundial
illiterates added a analemma loop to the oldest known analemmatic sundial in
Bourg-en-Bresse (France) at the monastery of Brou.
Willy Leenders
Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)
Visit my website about the sundial
hi all,
I draw inspiration from the image sent by Brian Albison for a meditation.
I often found analemmatic sundials with the analemma. Has it a sense ?
Standing on the analemma one can get the right correction for eot only at noon.
Most of these sundials don't report a warning about it, so the
