Dear Isabella,
As I expected, there are plenty of list members happy to offer advice. You
have to be a bit circumspect when reading some of it!
Willy Leenders is right to comment unfavourable on the drawing you find at:
http://www.sunclocks.com
The drawing and the wording round it are
Dear Isabella and others,
The double ring sundial on the indicated website has two errors.
1.
The person as drawn must not stand with two feet on one side of the centerline,
but with the feet on either side of the centerline.
2.
The inner ring is always wrong. You better leave him out.
He is
Dear Isabella,
There is nothing very special about the double ring design. It is (more or
less) two ordinary analemmatic sundials, one superimposed on the other.
This version was popularised by Douglas Hunt and you should explore his
website...
http://www.sunclocks.com
Practically anyone who
Dear Isabella,
The sundial is laid out according to the "Sunclock" design (
www.sunclocks.com), developed by Douglas Hunt from Great Britain. Paul
Ratto is the "order-taker" for North America; see:
www.sunclocks.com/pics/fs-002.htm, about halfway down the page. There is a
link to his own website:
Could anyone on this 'Mailing List' help me with finding Paul Ratto ?
My daughter would like to create a twin-ring Analemmatic sundial, for
her Girl Scout Gold Award - as shown on the NASS website page, at the
URL of: www.sundials.org/index.php/sundial-registry/onedial/819.html
It seems the
