Frank, I looked with Google for the words Old Grammar School Hawkshead Cumbria and I got a picture of the dial as attached. I hope it will pass to the sundial list also.
It is an east declining sundial for local suntime and I think the value is the declination of the dial.
Drawing such a dial for the given latitude and declination gave a rather look alike pattern. I have no idea what PL could mean. Best wishes, Fer. Fer J. de Vries De Zonnewijzerkring mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-zonnewijzerkring.nl Eindhoven, Netherlands lat. 51:30 N long. 5:30 E----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sundial" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 5:41 PM Subject: strange longitude
Greetings, fellow dialists, Reference the sundial on the Old Grammar School, Hawkshead, Cumbria, England. The school is a museum, famous as the place of William Wordsworth's education. Over the door is a fine dial dated 1845 with stated co-ordinates, latitude "54 deg. 22 min. 10 sec." and longitude "PL 35 deg. 43 min. 40 sec." The latitude appears to refer to the correct location but the longitude is a puzzle which the museum curator was unable to explain. Longitude eastward of Greenwich lands in an unremarked location in the middle of Russia but westward takes us close to Recife, formerly Pernambuco, Brazil. No significant place on the coast there (lighthouse, etc) fits but I am wondering if there is or was an observatory in or near the middle of the town. And what can the letters PL mean? Any suggestions for this strange longitude citing? Frank, 55N 1W -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.5.7/771 - Release Date: 21/04/2007 11:56 --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
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