I always try to have an instruction tablet that starts off "Stand on the
centre line at today's date".
David Brown
Somerton, Somerset, UK
---
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
That is Hilarious! Maybe for nickle it can read your fortune, too!
-Bill Gottesman
On 3/11/2011 4:56 PM, Willy Leenders wrote:
Maybe this helps: a bathroom weighting scale on a rail along the midline and the
instruction on the scale, "slide the scale until the date and read your weight and
Dear all,
Frans is so kind to show my solution in answer to my own question.
But it does not work also, as I have observed in the meantime.
The instruction "stand on the date" is not enough.
Perhaps the instruction must be: "stand on the date with the midline between
your feet"
And yet I have my
Dear all,
Willy is right in noting that instructions on information panels don't
work. I very much like the footprints. I think they are effective, with
or without explanatory text. From left to right in the attached
composite picture (in black & white; the color version, at 39 kB, did
not pa
Some human analemmatics have footprints indicating where people should
stand.
From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On
Behalf Of Willy Leenders
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 4:38 AM
To: Sundial List
Subject: Re: Moscow sundial?
As Roger already noted, most
As Roger already noted, most of the people stood on the label of the month,
rather than on the point on the centerline to which the label referred.
Who knows a means by which visitors to a analemmatic sundial stand intuitively
in the right place ?
An instruction on a information panel doesn't
It's always a great fun and delight to see Aleksandr Boldyrev aproach to
sundials. Clever, useful and with a sense of humor.
I didn't know about that video and enjoyed it, in fact it comes just the day
before I have a group of students coming to the Ciutadella de Roses Museum
for a visit conected t
Loved the human dial video!
I sent the video link to a client in Michigan who is ordering a human
sundial design. She thought it was fantastic. It will be a great selling
tool for potential clients!
Thx so much!
John
p.s. BTW, We are featuring Alek Boldyrevs stained glass sundial
Hi Reinhold,
Yes, thats it!! Many thanks.
When it was first posted, I remember a comment by someone on this list:
Most of the people stood on the label of the month, rather than on the
point on the centerline to which the label referred. (Im not sure what
point the pigeons went to.)
