(urth) Sundial with "multitudinous faces"?

[Antonin Scriabin]

One of the pictures is from this website:

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/access/sd3_moreinfo.html

This explains quite a lot about how such sundials work.  Pretty
fascinating!  The only quirk is that this particular one was more of a
design and engineering feat, since all the faces were to show the same time
at a given moment, while the one described by Severian shows different times
on different faces.  I suppose it would not be too hard to configure the
different sides so that they give times with a specific differentiation, so
that you could know the time elsewhere on the planet.

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Antonin Scriabin
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote:

> Here are some decent pictures of multifaceted sundials with multiple
> gnomons:
>
> http://www.davidbrownsundials.com/chch14_cutout_med.gif
>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/G%C3%B6ttingen_Cubic_Sundial_cropped.JPG
> http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/access/images/sd3a.jpg
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>wrote:
>
>> I was asking the same question recently.
>> On the page Jeff linked to, there is one that looks almost like a cube
>> with cut corners. I'd seen it, wondering how it could be a sundial. Well I
>> think the photoI saw was without the restored gnomons. I thought it looked
>> like a good contender for the Multi-faceted form, but I couldn't see how it
>> was a sundial. This picture makes it clear. Thanks.
>>
>> I love the idea that it's become it's own gnomon. Meta-Level-Alert!
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 12, 2011, at 1:26 AM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 5/12/2011 2:27 AM, beet 31425 wrote:
>> >> Hi folks-- first-time poster. Doing a pretty detailed re-read of New
>> Sun.
>> >>
>> >> I'm having trouble visualizing the sundial in the Atrium of Time. It's
>> >> described as "one of those old, faceted dials whose multitudinous faces
>> >> give each a different time." And later, there is a reference to "one of
>> >> its gnomons", implying it has more than one. What kind of a sundial has
>> >> multiple faces and gnomons? I'm having trouble visualizing it. Any
>> thoughts?
>> >
>> > http://www.harrietjames.sundials.co.uk/restoration.htm
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
>> > Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
>> > < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >
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