There's a nice one on the floor of a church in Sicily - much smaller than the great Cathedral ones, about 6 metres long from memory, with an analemma marked around it. I think the church is at Castiglione di Sicilia - it's certainly somewhere immediately N to NE of Mt Etna. It has the latitude and longitude relative to Palermo marked as well.
Is this on your list, Gianni? Regards Andrew James -----Original Message----- From: Anselmo Pérez Serrada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 March 2003 17:43 To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Subject: On Meridian dials Dear dialists, As you all know, a Meridian Dial is a sundial with only one hour line: that of noon, which coincides with the meridian or N-S line if we measure local time. In Europe you can find them in some temples, the most outstanding ones being these: Date Height Temple City ================================= 1437 50 m Holy Sophie Istanbul 1468 90 m S. Maria del Fiore Firenze 1653 27 m S. Petronio Bologna 1743 26 m S. Sulpice Paris 1786 24 m Duomo Milano By 'Height' I mean the height of the (pinhole) nodus from the ground in meters. Now my question is: does anybody know about some other remarkable meridian lines, maybe in other continents, maybe modern ones, or showing mean time, etc...? Best regards, Anselmo - -
