On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Anselmo P?rez Serrada wrote: > 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
You will have to do some digging to find out more about the individual meridian lines, but I have some photos on my Web site, courtesy of Franco Martinelli. They illustrate a number of Italian churches' lines, during the solar eclipse of August, 1999. All the churches are named, so they should be traceable. http://www.thebells.net/Eclipse/ Dave 37.406847N 122.027872W (at work) -
