Richard, That particular dial was designed by James Hartness (URL below).
http://www.hartnesshouse.com/vermont-museum/hartness-porter-museum.shtml Luke Coletti On 5/20/2010 12:31 PM, kool...@dickkoolish.com wrote: > Here is one of the Porter sundials in Springfield VT. > http://www.dickkoolish.com/rmk_page/RMK_Pictures/S60-07-31-06/IMGP0754.JPG > > >> Friends, >> >> Is there a conventional name (like horizontal', equatorial', polar' and >> so on) for the sundial constructed as shown below? >> >> Am I right thinking that the name of this construction is "Russell >> sundial"? >> I mean Prof. Russell Porter, the Palomar Mountain Observatory. >> >> Any help, please. >> >> Aleks >> www.sundials.ru >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
