Happy New Year, Frank, How about a T-shaped dial consisting of a vertical east dial backed by a vertical west dial and sharing a solid sloping roof whose edges act as the gnomons. The hour lines close to noon could be marked as a horizontal dial on the "floor" of the dial.
I think that this would meet the noon gap requirement but I cannot think of a location that demands it. Best wishes, Geoff On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 08:50, Frank King <f...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear All, > > Here is a little Dialling Puzzle to start > the New Year... > > We are all familiar with the term 'Noon Gap'. > On a simple horizontal sundial with a plate > gnomon, this is the gap on the dial plate > between the two vertical faces of the gnomon. > > On the dial plate, there are two lines for > 12 o'clock with the noon gap between. Often > this gap is left blank. Sometimes there is > a date or, perhaps, the maker's name. > > During the year just ended, I was asked to > design a dial which had to fit in a rather > unusual space. After a little thought, I > decided on a solution. In this... > > THE ENTIRE DIAL FITS INSIDE THE GNOMON GAP > > Question 1: What does the design look like? > > Question 2: Can this possibly look good? > > Question 3: What is the 'unusual space'? > > A Happy New Year to you all. > > Frank King > Cambridge, U.K. > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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