The Sunday Telegraph London, June 3rd, 2007
Everybody loves a sundial, whether it's a traditional stone and brass affair or something strikingly modern, but how are they best planned and positioned? Fortunately, there is helpful information out there for dedicated sundial worshippers.
How do you make sundials that are laid out on the ground?
These are called sun clocks or human sundials. The old-fashioned term is analammatic dials. They can be made from many materials and are fun to make. They broadly consist of two semi-ellipses laid out on the ground (often in the form of stone slabs set into the grass with numbers carved on them), ...
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