[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I believe that the professionals writing museum catalogues have their own > classification system but I've not found out where it's written up - anyone > know? >
The only museum catalogue I use that includes sundials is the Epact catalog <http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/>. Unfortunately, it employs no discernable classification system, and the participating museums often use different terms for similar features, making searching very difficult. However, it does have quite a good glossary. By the way, John, could you please note in the BSS Glossary that the correct term for a diagonal scale (used to interpolate the shadow edge between successive hour lines) is a nonius, from Pedro Nuñez, the Portuguese inventor. Sorry if this is in HTML. It should be plain text only, but I'm not confident in my settings. Chris Lusby Taylor Newbury, England 51.4N, 1.3W
