Included in the bad sundials list should be sundials, which were
properly constructed for the location but improperly installed or
improperly re-installed after cleaning or refurbishment. I happened to
notice one I think falls in the latter category on the way to the
terminal at Heathrow
John Carmichael wrote:
I think Mike Shaw has a posting somewhere of horribly wrong sundials. Mike
are you there?
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Hi John and everyone.
Yes, I'm still alive and watching the list with interest.
You're right (as usual), but I think you are remembering a short
On 12/03/2011 19:39, Brent wrote:
Hello again;
I hope I am not trying your patience with my endless questions.
Today I am thinking about all of the mistakes that I have made in my
thinking about sundial designs. The motions between the sun and earth
are more complicated than I first thought.
For most errors on sundials there is an explanation.
Sometimes the cause is a mystery.
As for the special sundial in Company's Garden in Cape Town (South Africa)
see http://www.wijzerweb.be/kaapstad.html
(note that in the southern hemisphere the sequence of hour numbers on a
horizontal dial is
Hi Brent,
The BSS Register has many ‘non-dials’ on its books. Some (though few) have
other dialling interest. We used to record all except the most flagrantly
erroneous one so that we could use the data for research but now are moving
away from that because there are so many ‘garden-centre
Brent,
In my province, where I know about all sundials the biggest blunder in terms of
time difference between the indicated time and the actual time, is an
equatorial sundial with the hour digits in reverse order.
He may be right in the southern hemisphere.
See
I think Mike Shaw has a posting somewhere of horribly wrong sundials. Mike
are you there? It would make a great webpage.
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