Hi, Patrik From my point of view this clock has an absence of two hands, pointing hour and minute in mean solar time. The one presented by sun moves in cilestial cycle (24 hours - ~ 4 minutes), thus, showing only current Zodiac sign.
Alex Krutiakov, www.analemma.ru 56.01N 37.5E >Вторник, 26 апреля 2016, 13:51 +03:00 от sundial-requ...@uni-koeln.de: > >Send sundial mailing list submissions to >sundial@uni-koeln.de > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >sundial-requ...@uni-koeln.de > >You can reach the person managing the list at >sundial-ow...@uni-koeln.de > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of sundial digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re unreadable dials (Patrick Powers) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:50:50 +0100 >From: "Patrick Powers" < patrick_pow...@compuserve.com > >To: "Sundial mail list NEW" < sundial@uni-koeln.de > >Subject: Re unreadable dials >Message-ID: <C8B8EC9461624A52907A75DD73858090@PatrickPC> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > >Hi Nicola > >Your comment regarding the placement of armillary dials too high to be read is >very interesting. I am sure that you are correct. >This practice continues (nearly) to the present day. We have a few ?dials? >like that in Britain and it does indeed seem sometimes to have been the >practice to add focus to a garden by placing what is effectively a ?false? >dial on a very tall column. > >A particular one that I recall dates (I think) from the 1920s and is one which >I managed to photograph close up some time ago. It is at Snowshill Manor in >Gloucestershire (UK) where it is complete as a dial, even to the inclusion of >a nodus. It does not however have a time scale. > >That dial is mounted on a 4m high octagonal column and as a consequence it is >remarkably difficult to photograph against the sky let alone view any of its >detail from the ground. >Thank you for providing the historical background to this interesting practice. > >Patrick >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: < >https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/private/sundial/attachments/20160426/23012415/attachment.html > > >-------------- next part -------------- >A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >Name: s3902.jpg >Type: image/jpeg >Size: 54331 bytes >Desc: not available >URL: < >https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/private/sundial/attachments/20160426/23012415/attachment.jpg > > > >------------------------------ > >Subject: Digest Footer > >_______________________________________________ >sundial mailing list >sundial@uni-koeln.de >https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > >------------------------------ > >End of sundial Digest, Vol 124, Issue 22 >****************************************
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