There is a magnificent public sundial in Australia, seen as a spiral town square on Google Earth at lat -37.802467, longitude 144.965927 degrees. It is flat to the ground, but unlike an analemmatic, it uses the person's height to tell time, and looks more like a traditional horizontal layout. See another photo at http://www.flickr.com/photos/leprecon/97106416/
-Bill On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Isabella McFedries < isabella.mcfedr...@gmail.com> wrote: > In message < > caf10bvvcvya+c5e5wm82f2fern6n_jogqohagvd6bwdesx0...@mail.gmail.com> > Marton Géza <idomes...@mcse.hu> wrote: > > > Dear All! > > > > I received an invitation to hold a lecture and show sundials of castle > > parks and parks on the world. I ask for your help in this regard where to > > find materials or list about these. > > Regards > > > > Géza Marton > > idomes...@mcse.hu > > > > There must be hundreds of available pictures, showing sundials used in > park situations round the world - but in my opinion, the only practical > ones are Analemmatics (being both 'interactive' and theft-proof). > > However, I am not sure if there are very many of these located at any > 'castles', who usually only have horizontal and wall-mounted versions, > with maybe an occasional 'armillary sphere' or 'multi-faceted' dial. > > > If you think that they might make an interesting addition to your talk, > I have attached two small photographs - the originals are larger, and > were taken from the main 'Human Sundial' website at www.sunclocks.com > > > One is a typical park (USA), the other is at a 'castle' (UK) - and I > hope they will get through the file-size restriction for this List. > > I just wish that Analemmatic sundials were better known - but (if you > want) there are more pictures of 'park' locations, on that website. > > Sincerely, > > Isabella McFedries. > > > -- > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > >
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