Dear John,
One possibility to 'repair' the flaw in the Flandrau analemmatic dial is to
remove (or ignore) the analemma and repaint the meridian line. This would
restore it into a 'classical' analemmatic dial.
A second option is to quit the classical analemmatic principle and instead
construct
hael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: Analemmatic Design Error
> John,
>
> Your proposed experiment suffers from the problem that the error is not
> constant throughout any given day. Indeed, if it were, then the analemma
> could in f
Thibaud Chabot
At 08:37 20-03-2002 -0700, you wrote:
Hello All
After much discussion I was finally able to convince the directors of
Flandrau Planetarium that their sidewalk analemmatic sundial is incorrectly
painted because it lacks a meridian line. Instead, It has an analemma on the
meridia
Hello All
After much discussion I was finally able to convince the directors of
Flandrau Planetarium that their sidewalk analemmatic sundial is incorrectly
painted because it lacks a meridian line. Instead, It has an analemma on the
meridian and people are instructed to stand on the analemma. Tha
