Never heard of a Beam and Spar Sundial. Do you have a picture and
descriptio.
Tom Laidlaw
-----Original Message-----
From: Mac Oglesby
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:35 PM
To: Kevin Karney
Cc: Sundial List
Subject: Re: Why are schools, across the world, 'banning'
analemmaticsundials ?
Hi Kevin,
Just to set the record straight, the original
"Beam & Spar" dial was designed and constructed
by Bill Maddux. He was one of my early mentors
and later we collaborated (along with Fer de
Vries) on several sundial articles. Bill passed
away in 2004. In his memory, at the NASS 2007
conference in McLean, Virginia I led a brief
workshop where each participant assembled a small
Beam & Spar sundial designed specifically for
their home latitude.
Best wishes,
Mac Oglesby
Martina
Gian is quite right. But one must tryŠ So you need a strategy to overcome
the stupidity. Why not recommend to your school the superb Mac Oglesby Beam
& Spar dial (equiangular - so correctable for summer time and EoT!). This
is designed for boy scouts/girl guides and involves ropes (children will
hang themselves) and tree climbing (broken legs guaranteed) and - dare I
say it - knives (child murder inevitable). So that is bound to be refused.
Now you suggest a gentle analemmatic in its place and the authorities will
melt with happiness at its simplicity and safety.
Or fight the dead hand of bureaucratic idiocy with its own kind. Do a full
risk assessment of all potential dangers and provide the strategy required
to overcome each risk. (Sun hats against the sun Š. non-poisonous paints Š
pre-cut lengths of string Š old fashioned supervision of rowdy children Š a
tool-box talk etc etc).
My heart goes out to you and I hope you show copies of this e-mail thread
to your head teacher and point out that there are very few things in the
current overcrowd curriculum that can gently and cheaply draw together the
diverse threads of art, history, astronomy, geography, geometry and maths
as sundials in the playground. And they get the children out of the
unhealthy atmosphere of the class room into the great outside.
Good luck - you have my full support
Kevin Karney
On 15 May 2012, at 19:16, <mailto:sun.di...@libero.it>sun.di...@libero.it
wrote:
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." ~ Friedrich
Schiller
Ciao.
Gian
----Messaggio originale----
Da: <mailto:martina.addisc...@gmail.com>martina.addisc...@gmail.com
Data: 15/05/2012 19.23
A: <<mailto:sundial@uni-koeln.de>sundial@uni-koeln.de>
Ogg: Re: Why are schools, across the world, 'banning' analemmatic
sundials ?
In message <C999F252986D457EA20FAC7AD947B60D@samsung>
"Reinhold Kriegler"
<<mailto:reinhold.krieg...@gmx.de>reinhold.krieg...@gmx.de> wrote:
Dear Martina,
I still remember your previous message!
The world is crazy!
In Germany I have heard in a radio transmission last year, parents went
to a lawyer after there children fell over a tree root while walking
with the class on a public path through a forestŠ and private forest
owners are thinking of no longer allowing people to walk on their paths
through the forestŠ as they had to fight with several reports at the law
courts!
My beautiful analemmatic sundial was destroyed by jealouse women
colleagues and they worried a lot about a friendly newspaper article. I
was even called by the headmistress and she was not ashamed to tell me
"There are also other good teachers at our school!" - because of a
harmless sentence of a 10 years old girl about me! Nothing else! So you
see where the real danger is! It is the jealousy, nothing else!
<http://www.ta-dip.de/sonnenuhren/meine-sonnenuhren/analemmatische-sonnen>http://www.ta-dip.de/sonnenuhren/meine-sonnenuhren/analemmatische-sonnen
uhr.html
Dear Reinhold,
Thanks for your reply, saying you also had some difficulty with
an 'analemmatic' sundial at a school - and caused by "jealousy"
plus people being frightened of some legal action, against them.
As you suggest, I would love to 'defy' our Educational Authority
to install this feature - but if I did so, then I am afraid that
both myself and my Head Teacher will be dismissed from our jobs.
I really cannot understand why (say) any "Hop-scotch" grids and
"Snakes & Ladders" layouts are OK for playgrounds - but when it
comes to interactive Human Sundials, they are deemed 'dangerous'
for children. Nobody seems to be able to give me a satisfactory
explanation for it - except to say, "Health and Safety" reasons.
If anyone else has some ideas on this, then please let me know.
Sincerely,
Martina Addiscott.
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