RE: Gnomen

2005-02-18 Thread Carl & Barbara Sabanski
Hello Robert, If you visit my web site you may find some information that may be useful to you. The Sundial Primer: http://www.mts.net/~sabanski/sundial/tsp/tsp.html If you go to the page "The Wide Gnomon" there is an illustration of the type of gnomon that I believe Silas Higgon was speaking o

RE: Gnomen

2005-02-18 Thread Silas Higgon
Haddonstone sell a horizontal dial which has a gnomon with a curved surface. It also has a second edge behind the upper "style" which is straight and this is the edge that registers the time. Perhaps this is a similar dial? Silas Higgon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: Gnomen

2005-02-18 Thread BillGottesman
I found out about the sundial mailing list from "Sundials on the Internet" My wife has been given a sundial and before fixing it I have done some investigation.    Only one problem - the upper surface of the gnomen is convex - how do I measure the angle of the gnomen ? If I measure in a str