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<fritzstump...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I don't know anything about the Hunt problems but when I clicked
> the link that you provided to his site, I see the first glaring error
> that is made in many of these dials...I believe. Shouldn't there be
> just a single line that you straddle. His picture shows a person
> very much standing to one side and implying that you would stand
> on the other side during the opposite half of the year.
>
> Fritz
>
Thanks for your reply, and you would really need to contact Douglas
Hunt himself - but (as far as I know), this double-ring design uses
a 'modified' central Date-scale which compensates for the Equation-
of-Time, as well as self-adjusting for the Daylight-Saving changes.
However, I think that he no longer uses 'E-mail' (which is probably
why he is not on this Mailing List) - though Frank King should most
certainly be able to confirm how the design indicates correct CLOCK
time, although sundial 'purists' will say it should be SOLAR time !
If these "Sunclock" layouts were NOT accurate, then I could imagine
that they would not have become so popular all over the world - and
the website I gave (www.sunclocks.com), shows hundreds of pictures.
Because these seem to overcome all the problems associated with any
'traditional' Analemmatic layout - people get to know that sundials
CAN tell time accurately enough (at least within the width of their
own shadow), plus is perhaps why they are featured in School-books.
If anyone else has comments (or some questions), then please get in
touch with Douglas Hunt DIRECT - as I am not able to offer specific
advice on "Sunclocks", and do not want to supply wrong information.
The only reason that I had replied to an original posting, by Brian
Albinson (about 'double' Analemmas) - was to indicate that doing so
appears to confuse people, but without giving any greater accuracy.
My opinion, is that Analemmas should NOT appear on any Analemmatic.
I believe that Roger Bailey would consider Helmut Sonderegger to be
the "go to" person for any Analemmatic layout, plus appears to have
something 'against' Doug Hunt - although that does not diminish the
value of the contribution Mr Hunt has made to popularising sundials
all around the world, particularly within the 'Educational Sector'.
Lastly, I have no desire to create any 'confict' between members of
this Mailing List - but I have noticed in the past that any persons
who would tend to 'support' Doug Hunt, were quickly "shouted down".
I could only imagine that it is caused by jealousy of his success !
In terms of the 'volume' of interactive Human Sundial layouts which
could be directly attributed to Mr Hunt, there cannot be many other
diallists who can match these - even though "Modern Sunclocks" only
offers customized layout 'Plans', with no actual involvement in how
those installations are created (chosen by the clients themselves).
Sincerely,
Dave Andersson.
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