[LEAPSECS] Coming of age in the solar system

[Richard B. Langley]

Some of us have designed/rebuilt sundials:
<http://www.new-brunswick.net/new-brunswick/fredericton/page1.html>
<http://www.mail-archive.com/sundial@uni-koeln.de/msg09972.html>.
There is a very knowledgeable sundial group, which includes a number  
of scientists and others familiar with the astronomical niceties:
<https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial>.
-- Richard

Quoting Roger Stapleton <jrs at st-andrews.ac.uk>:


> On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>

>> In message <FD9F9D07-2A21-4F72-A10A-F7B91B7C1678 at noao.edu>, Rob  

>> Seaman writes:

>>> On Sep 5, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>>

>>> Oh!  Other than astronomy - the one and only place we've looked

>>> sufficiently well enough to know the answer.

>>

>> So far I don't recall one single example having been proffered outside

>> astronomy ?

>

> Perhaps there is nobody on this list who designs and builds  

> sundials? They are usually artsist/craftsman and NOT astronomers.

>

> 			Roger

>

>>

>> This argument of yours would be a lot stronger if you could at least

>> identify the index-case for the class.

>>

>> -- 

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  Richard B. Langley                            E-mail: lang at unb.ca
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