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
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
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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