(urth) Sundial with "multitudinous faces"?

[Son of Witz]

Thanks for that page.
I don't know, I think the description could fit, in that each face DOES give a different time, in that the each have a specific time range. Each has some patch of hours.


On May 12, 2011, at 6:33 AM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 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!
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> 
> 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
> >
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