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<a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Summer_(daylight_saving)_time_correction"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Summer (daylight saving) time correction</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Summer_(daylight_saving)_time_correction-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Time-zone_(longitude)_correction" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Time-zone_(longitude)_correction"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Time-zone (longitude) correction</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Time-zone_(longitude)_correction-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Equation_of_time_correction" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Equation_of_time_correction"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Equation of time correction</span> </div> </a> <ul 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id="toc-Vertical_sundials-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Polar_dials" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Polar_dials"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.5</span> <span>Polar dials</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Polar_dials-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Vertical_declining_dials" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Vertical_declining_dials"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.6</span> <span>Vertical declining dials</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Vertical_declining_dials-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Reclining_dials" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reclining_dials"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.7</span> <span>Reclining dials</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reclining_dials-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Declining-reclining_dials/_Declining-inclining_dials" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Declining-reclining_dials/_Declining-inclining_dials"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.8</span> <span>Declining-reclining dials/ Declining-inclining dials</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Declining-reclining_dials/_Declining-inclining_dials-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Empirical_method" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Empirical_method"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.8.1</span> <span>Empirical method</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Empirical_method-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spherical_sundials" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spherical_sundials"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.9</span> <span>Spherical sundials</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spherical_sundials-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cylindrical,_conical,_and_other_non-planar_sundials" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cylindrical,_conical,_and_other_non-planar_sundials"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.10</span> <span>Cylindrical, conical, and other non-planar sundials</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cylindrical,_conical,_and_other_non-planar_sundials-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Movable-gnomon_sundials" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Movable-gnomon_sundials"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Movable-gnomon sundials</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Movable-gnomon_sundials-sublist" 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Card_dials_(Capuchin_dials)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.4</span> <span>Card dials (Capuchin dials)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Card_dials_(Capuchin_dials)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Navicula" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Navicula"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.5</span> <span>Navicula</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Navicula-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Nodus-based_sundials" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nodus-based_sundials"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Nodus-based sundials</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Nodus-based_sundials-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only 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<a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noon_marks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.5</span> <span>Noon marks</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noon_marks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sundial_cannon" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sundial_cannon"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.6</span> <span>Sundial cannon</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sundial_cannon-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Meridian_lines" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Meridian_lines"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Meridian lines</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Meridian_lines-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sundial_mottoes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sundial_mottoes"> <div 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title="Sonnenuhr – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Sonnenuhr" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9" title="مزولة – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مزولة" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rel%C3%B3_de_sol" title="Reló de sol – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Reló de sol" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuarahyra%27anga" title="Kuarahyra'anga – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Kuarahyra'anga" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCn%C9%99%C5%9F_saat%C4%B1" title="Günəş saatı – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Günəş saatı" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B4_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C" title="گونش ساعاتی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="گونش ساعاتی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%98%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BF" title="সূর্যঘড়ি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সূর্যঘড়ি" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%A0%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%88_%D1%81%D3%99%D2%93%D3%99%D1%82%D0%B5" title="Ҡояш сәғәте – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Ҡояш сәғәте" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA" title="Сонечны гадзіннік – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Сонечны гадзіннік" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA" title="Сонечны гадзіньнік – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Сонечны гадзіньнік" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%8A%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2_%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA" title="Слънчев часовник – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Слънчев часовник" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%C4%8Dani_sat" title="Sunčani sat – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Sunčani sat" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horolaj-heol" title="Horolaj-heol – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Horolaj-heol" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rellotge_de_sol" title="Rellotge de sol – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Rellotge de sol" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slune%C4%8Dn%C3%AD_hodiny" title="Sluneční hodiny – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sluneční hodiny" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridiana" title="Meridiana – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Meridiana" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solur" title="Solur – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Solur" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenuhr" title="Sonnenuhr – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sonnenuhr" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A4ikesekell" title="Päikesekell – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Päikesekell" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%97%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B9" title="Ηλιακό ρολόι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ηλιακό ρολόι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridi%C3%A0na" title="Meridiàna – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="Meridiàna" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reloj_de_sol" title="Reloj de sol – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Reloj de sol" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunhorlo%C4%9Do" title="Sunhorloĝo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Sunhorloĝo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eguzki_erloju" title="Eguzki erloju – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Eguzki erloju" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA_%D8%A2%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C" title="ساعت آفتابی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ساعت آفتابی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadran_solaire" title="Cadran solaire – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Cadran solaire" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clog_gr%C3%A9ine" title="Clog gréine – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Clog gréine" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uaireadair-gr%C3%A8ine" title="Uaireadair-grèine – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Uaireadair-grèine" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reloxo_de_sol" title="Reloxo de sol – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Reloxo de sol" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%99%B7" title="日晷 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="日晷" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%95%B4%EC%8B%9C%EA%B3%84" title="해시계 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="해시계" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%A3%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D5%AA%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B5%D6%81" title="Արեգակնային ժամացույց – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Արեգակնային ժամացույց" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%98%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BC%E0%A5%80" title="सौर घड़ी – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="सौर घड़ी" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%C4%8Dani_sat" title="Sunčani sat – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Sunčani sat" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_matahari" title="Jam matahari – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Jam matahari" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B3l%C3%BAr" title="Sólúr – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Sólúr" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridiana" title="Meridiana – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Meridiana" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A9" title="שעון שמש – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="שעון שמש" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%96%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%90%E1%83%97%E1%83%98" title="მზის საათი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მზის საათი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D2%AF%D0%BD_%D1%81%D0%B0%D2%93%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B" title="Күн сағаты – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Күн сағаты" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gcr mw-list-item"><a href="https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadran_sol%C3%A8r" title="Kadran solèr – Guianan Creole" lang="gcr" hreflang="gcr" data-title="Kadran solèr" data-language-autonym="Kriyòl gwiyannen" data-language-local-name="Guianan Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kriyòl gwiyannen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarium" title="Solarium – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Solarium" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saules_pulkstenis" title="Saules pulkstenis – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Saules pulkstenis" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenauer" title="Sonnenauer – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Sonnenauer" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul%C4%97s_laikrodis" title="Saulės laikrodis – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Saulės laikrodis" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%B3nwiezer" title="Zónwiezer – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Zónwiezer" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nap%C3%B3ra" title="Napóra – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Napóra" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2_%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA" title="Сончев часовник – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Сончев часовник" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%98%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82" title="സൂര്യഘടികാരം – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="സൂര്യഘടികാരം" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_matahari" title="Jam matahari – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Jam matahari" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reloijo_de_sol" title="Reloijo de sol – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Reloijo de sol" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" 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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Sundial_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Sundial (disambiguation)">Sundial (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Device that tells the time of day by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MootHallSundial.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/MootHallSundial.JPG/220px-MootHallSundial.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="307" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/MootHallSundial.JPG/330px-MootHallSundial.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/MootHallSundial.JPG/440px-MootHallSundial.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1191" data-file-height="1662" /></a><figcaption>SSW facing, vertical declining sundial on the Moot Hall in <a href="/wiki/Aldeburgh" title="Aldeburgh">Aldeburgh</a>, Suffolk, England. The gnomon is a rod that is very narrow, so it functions as the style. The Latin motto loosely translates as "I only count the sunny hours."</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Melbourne_sundial_at_Flagstaff_Gardens.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Melbourne_sundial_at_Flagstaff_Gardens.JPG/220px-Melbourne_sundial_at_Flagstaff_Gardens.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Melbourne_sundial_at_Flagstaff_Gardens.JPG/330px-Melbourne_sundial_at_Flagstaff_Gardens.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Melbourne_sundial_at_Flagstaff_Gardens.JPG/440px-Melbourne_sundial_at_Flagstaff_Gardens.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3168" /></a><figcaption>A horizontal dial commissioned in 1862, the gnomon is the triangular blade. The style is its inclined edge.<sup id="cite_ref-VHD_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VHD-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AnnMorrisonParkSundial.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/AnnMorrisonParkSundial.jpg/220px-AnnMorrisonParkSundial.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/AnnMorrisonParkSundial.jpg/330px-AnnMorrisonParkSundial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/AnnMorrisonParkSundial.jpg/440px-AnnMorrisonParkSundial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="995" data-file-height="738" /></a><figcaption>A combined <a href="/wiki/Analemma" title="Analemma">analemmatic</a>-equatorial sundial in Ann Morrison Park in <a href="/wiki/Boise,_Idaho" title="Boise, Idaho">Boise, Idaho</a>, 43°36'45.5"N 116°13'27.6"W</figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>sundial</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Horology" class="mw-redirect" title="Horology">horological</a> device that tells the time of <a href="/wiki/Day" title="Day">day</a> (referred to as <a href="/wiki/Civil_time" title="Civil time">civil time</a> in modern usage) when direct <a href="/wiki/Sunlight" title="Sunlight">sunlight</a> shines by the <a href="/wiki/Position_of_the_Sun" title="Position of the Sun">apparent position</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Sky" title="Sky">sky</a>. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a flat plate (the <i>dial</i>) and a <a href="/wiki/Gnomon" title="Gnomon">gnomon</a>, which casts a <a href="/wiki/Shadow" title="Shadow">shadow</a> onto the dial. As the Sun <a href="/wiki/Diurnal_motion" title="Diurnal motion">appears to move</a> through the sky, the shadow aligns with different hour-lines, which are marked on the dial to indicate the time of day. The <i>style</i> is the time-telling edge of the gnomon, though a single point or <i>nodus</i> may be used. The gnomon casts a broad shadow; the shadow of the style shows the time. The gnomon may be a rod, wire, or elaborately decorated metal casting. The style must be <a href="/wiki/Polar_alignment" title="Polar alignment">parallel to the axis</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Earth%27s_rotation" title="Earth's rotation">Earth's rotation</a> for the sundial to be accurate throughout the year. The style's angle from horizontal is equal to the sundial's geographical <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a>. </p><p>The term <i>sundial</i> can refer to any device that uses the Sun's <a href="/wiki/Horizontal_coordinate_system" title="Horizontal coordinate system">altitude</a> or <a href="/wiki/Azimuth" title="Azimuth">azimuth</a> (or both) to show the time. Sundials are valued as decorative objects, <a href="/wiki/Metaphor" title="Metaphor">metaphors</a>, and objects of intrigue and mathematical study. </p><p>The passing of time can be observed by placing a stick in the sand or a nail in a board and placing markers at the edge of a shadow or outlining a shadow at intervals. It is common for inexpensive, mass-produced decorative sundials to have incorrectly aligned gnomons, shadow lengths, and hour-lines, which cannot be adjusted to tell correct time.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886046785">.mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}</style><div class="toclimit-3"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Introduction">Introduction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Introduction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are several different types of sundials. Some sundials use a shadow or the edge of a shadow while others use a line or spot of light to indicate the time. </p><p>The shadow-casting object, known as a <i>gnomon</i>, may be a long thin rod or other object with a sharp tip or a straight edge. Sundials employ many types of gnomon. The gnomon may be fixed or moved according to the season. It may be oriented vertically, horizontally, aligned with the Earth's axis, or oriented in an altogether different direction determined by mathematics. </p><p>Given that sundials use light to indicate time, a line of light may be formed by allowing the Sun's rays through a thin slit or focusing them through a <a href="/wiki/Cylindrical_lens" title="Cylindrical lens">cylindrical lens</a>. A spot of light may be formed by allowing the Sun's rays to pass through a small hole, window, <a href="/wiki/Oculus_(architecture)" title="Oculus (architecture)">oculus</a>, or by reflecting them from a small circular mirror. A spot of light can be as small as a <a href="/wiki/Pinhole_(optics)" title="Pinhole (optics)">pinhole</a> in a solargraph or as large as the oculus in the Pantheon. </p><p>Sundials also may use many types of surfaces to receive the light or shadow. <a href="/wiki/Plane_(mathematics)" title="Plane (mathematics)">Planes</a> are the most common surface, but partial <a href="/wiki/Sphere" title="Sphere">spheres</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cylinder_(geometry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cylinder (geometry)">cylinders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cone_(geometry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cone (geometry)">cones</a> and other shapes have been used for greater accuracy or beauty. </p><p>Sundials differ in their portability and their need for orientation. The installation of many dials requires knowing the local <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a>, the precise vertical direction (e.g., by a level or plumb-bob), and the direction to <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a>. Portable dials are self-aligning: for example, it may have two dials that operate on different principles, such as a horizontal and <a href="/wiki/Analemmatic_sundial" title="Analemmatic sundial">analemmatic</a> dial, mounted together on one plate. In these designs, their times agree only when the plate is aligned properly. </p><p>Sundials may indicate the <a href="/wiki/Solar_time" title="Solar time">local solar time</a> only. To obtain the national clock time, three corrections are required: </p> <ol><li>The orbit of the Earth is not perfectly circular and its rotational axis is not perpendicular to its orbit. The sundial's indicated solar time thus varies from clock time by small amounts that change throughout the year. This correction—which may be as great as 16 minutes, 33 seconds—is described by the <a href="/wiki/Equation_of_time" title="Equation of time">equation of time</a>. A sophisticated sundial, with a curved style or hour lines, may incorporate this correction. The more usual simpler sundials sometimes have a small plaque that gives the offsets at various times of the year.</li> <li>The solar time must be corrected for the <a href="/wiki/Longitude" title="Longitude">longitude</a> of the sundial relative to the longitude of the official time zone. For example, an uncorrected sundial located <i>west</i> of <a href="/wiki/Greenwich" title="Greenwich">Greenwich</a>, England but within the same time-zone, shows an <i>earlier</i> time than the official time. It may show "11:45" at official noon, and will show "noon" after the official noon. This correction can easily be made by rotating the hour-lines by a constant angle equal to the difference in longitudes, which makes this a commonly possible design option.</li> <li>To adjust for <a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">daylight saving time</a>, if applicable, the solar time must additionally be shifted for the official difference (usually one hour). This is also a correction that can be done on the dial, i.e. by numbering the hour-lines with two sets of numbers, or even by swapping the numbering in some designs. More often this is simply ignored, or mentioned on the plaque with the other corrections, if there is one.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Apparent_motion_of_the_Sun">Apparent motion of the Sun</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Apparent motion of the Sun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Equatorial_sundial_topview.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Equatorial_sundial_topview.gif/220px-Equatorial_sundial_topview.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Equatorial_sundial_topview.gif/330px-Equatorial_sundial_topview.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Equatorial_sundial_topview.gif 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>Top view of an equatorial sundial. The hour lines are spaced equally about the circle, and the shadow of the gnomon (a thin cylindrical rod) moving from 3:00<span class="nowrap"> </span>a.m. to 9:00<span class="nowrap"> </span>p.m. on or around <a href="/wiki/Solstice" title="Solstice">Solstice</a>, when the Sun is at its highest <a href="/wiki/Declination" title="Declination">declination</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The principles of sundials are understood most easily from the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a>'s apparent motion.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Earth rotates on its axis, and revolves in an elliptical orbit around the Sun. An excellent approximation assumes that the Sun revolves around a stationary Earth on the <a href="/wiki/Celestial_sphere" title="Celestial sphere">celestial sphere</a>, which rotates every 24 hours about its celestial axis. The celestial axis is the line connecting the <a href="/wiki/Celestial_pole" title="Celestial pole">celestial poles</a>. Since the celestial axis is aligned with the axis about which the Earth rotates, the angle of the axis with the local horizontal is the local geographical <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a>. </p><p>Unlike the <a href="/wiki/Fixed_stars" title="Fixed stars">fixed stars</a>, the Sun changes its position on the celestial sphere, being (in the northern hemisphere) at a positive <a href="/wiki/Declination" title="Declination">declination</a> in spring and summer, and at a negative declination in autumn and winter, and having exactly zero declination (i.e., being on the <a href="/wiki/Celestial_equator" title="Celestial equator">celestial equator</a>) at the <a href="/wiki/Equinox" title="Equinox">equinoxes</a>. The Sun's <a href="/wiki/Celestial_longitude" class="mw-redirect" title="Celestial longitude">celestial longitude</a> also varies, changing by one complete revolution per year. The path of the Sun on the celestial sphere is called the <a href="/wiki/Ecliptic" title="Ecliptic">ecliptic</a>. The ecliptic passes through the twelve constellations of the <a href="/wiki/Zodiac" title="Zodiac">zodiac</a> in the course of a year. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sundial,_Singapore_Botanic_Gardens.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Sundial%2C_Singapore_Botanic_Gardens.jpg/220px-Sundial%2C_Singapore_Botanic_Gardens.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Sundial%2C_Singapore_Botanic_Gardens.jpg/330px-Sundial%2C_Singapore_Botanic_Gardens.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Sundial%2C_Singapore_Botanic_Gardens.jpg/440px-Sundial%2C_Singapore_Botanic_Gardens.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Bowstring sundial in <a href="/wiki/Singapore_Botanic_Gardens" title="Singapore Botanic Gardens">Singapore Botanic Gardens</a>. The design shows that <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a> is located almost at the <a href="/wiki/Equator" title="Equator">equator</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>This model of the Sun's motion helps to understand sundials. If the shadow-casting gnomon is aligned with the <a href="/wiki/Celestial_pole" title="Celestial pole">celestial poles</a>, its shadow will revolve at a constant rate, and this rotation will not change with the seasons. This is the most common design. In such cases, the same hour lines may be used throughout the year. The hour-lines will be spaced uniformly if the surface receiving the shadow is either perpendicular (as in the equatorial sundial) or circular about the gnomon (as in the <a href="/wiki/Armillary_sphere" title="Armillary sphere">armillary sphere</a>). </p><p>In other cases, the hour-lines are not spaced evenly, even though the shadow rotates uniformly. If the gnomon is <i>not</i> aligned with the celestial poles, even its shadow will not rotate uniformly, and the hour lines must be corrected accordingly. The rays of light that graze the tip of a gnomon, or which pass through a small hole, or reflect from a small mirror, trace out a <a href="/wiki/Cone_(geometry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cone (geometry)">cone</a> aligned with the celestial poles. The corresponding light-spot or shadow-tip, if it falls onto a flat surface, will trace out a <a href="/wiki/Conic_section" title="Conic section">conic section</a>, such as a <a href="/wiki/Hyperbola" title="Hyperbola">hyperbola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ellipse" title="Ellipse">ellipse</a> or (at the North or South Poles) a <a href="/wiki/Circle" title="Circle">circle</a>. </p><p>This conic section is the intersection of the cone of light rays with the flat surface. This cone and its conic section change with the seasons, as the Sun's declination changes; hence, sundials that follow the motion of such light-spots or shadow-tips often have different hour-lines for different times of the year. This is seen in shepherd's dials, sundial rings, and vertical gnomons such as obelisks. Alternatively, sundials may change the angle or position (or both) of the gnomon relative to the hour lines, as in the analemmatic dial or the Lambert dial. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_sundials" title="History of sundials">History of sundials</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ancient-egyptian-sundial.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ancient-egyptian-sundial.jpg/220px-Ancient-egyptian-sundial.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="241" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ancient-egyptian-sundial.jpg/330px-Ancient-egyptian-sundial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ancient-egyptian-sundial.jpg/440px-Ancient-egyptian-sundial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="575" data-file-height="629" /></a><figcaption>World's oldest sundial, from Egypt's Valley of the Kings (c. 1500 BC)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Phoenician_sun_dial_-_Ernest_Renan_reconstruction.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Phoenician_sun_dial_-_Ernest_Renan_reconstruction.jpg/220px-Phoenician_sun_dial_-_Ernest_Renan_reconstruction.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Phoenician_sun_dial_-_Ernest_Renan_reconstruction.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="186" /></a><figcaption>Reconstruction of the 2,000 year old <a href="/wiki/Phoenician_sundial" title="Phoenician sundial">Phoenician sundial</a> found at <a href="/wiki/Umm_al-Amad,_Lebanon" title="Umm al-Amad, Lebanon">Umm al-Amad, Lebanon</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The earliest sundials known from the archaeological record are shadow clocks (1500 <a href="/wiki/Anno_Domini" title="Anno Domini">BC</a> or <a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">BCE</a>) from ancient <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_astronomy" title="Egyptian astronomy">Egyptian astronomy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_astronomy" title="Babylonian astronomy">Babylonian astronomy</a>. Presumably, humans were telling time from shadow-lengths at an even earlier date, but this is hard to verify. In roughly 700 BC, the <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> describes a sundial—the "dial of Ahaz" mentioned in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+38:8&version=nkj">Isaiah 38:8</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+20:11&version=nkj">2 Kings 20:11</a>. By 240 BC Eratosthenes had estimated the <a href="/wiki/Circumference" title="Circumference">circumference</a> of the world using an obelisk and a water well and a few centuries later Ptolemy had charted the latitude of cities using the angle of the sun. The people of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush" title="Kingdom of Kush">Kush</a> created sun dials through geometry.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Roman writer <a href="/wiki/Vitruvius" title="Vitruvius">Vitruvius</a> lists dials and shadow clocks known at that time in his <i><a href="/wiki/De_architectura" title="De architectura">De architectura</a></i>. The Tower of Winds constructed in Athens included sundial and a <a href="/wiki/Water_clock" title="Water clock">water clock</a> for telling time. A <a href="/wiki/Canonical_sundial" class="mw-redirect" title="Canonical sundial">canonical sundial</a> is one that indicates the canonical hours of liturgical acts. Such sundials were used from the 7th to the 14th centuries by the members of religious communities. The Italian astronomer <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Padovani" title="Giovanni Padovani">Giovanni Padovani</a> published a treatise on the sundial in 1570, in which he included instructions for the manufacture and laying out of mural (vertical) and horizontal sundials. <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Biancani" title="Giuseppe Biancani">Giuseppe Biancani</a>'s <i>Constructio instrumenti ad horologia solaria</i> (c. 1620) discusses how to make a perfect sundial. They have been commonly used since the 16th century. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Seoul-Gyeongbokgung-Sundial-02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Seoul-Gyeongbokgung-Sundial-02.jpg/300px-Seoul-Gyeongbokgung-Sundial-02.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Seoul-Gyeongbokgung-Sundial-02.jpg/450px-Seoul-Gyeongbokgung-Sundial-02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Seoul-Gyeongbokgung-Sundial-02.jpg/600px-Seoul-Gyeongbokgung-Sundial-02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption>A Korean sundial(<i>Angbu-ilgu</i>) first made by <a href="/wiki/Jang_Yeong-sil" title="Jang Yeong-sil">Jang Yeong-sil</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Joseon" title="Joseon">Joseon</a> period, displayed in <a href="/wiki/Gyeongbokgung" title="Gyeongbokgung">Gyeongbokgung</a>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Functioning">Functioning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Functioning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:London_dial.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/London_dial.svg/220px-London_dial.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/London_dial.svg/330px-London_dial.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/London_dial.svg/440px-London_dial.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3187" data-file-height="2309" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/London_dial" title="London dial">London type horizontal dial</a>. The western edge of the gnomon is used as the style before noon, the eastern edge after that time. The changeover causes a discontinuity, the noon gap, in the time scale.</figcaption></figure> <p>In general, sundials indicate the time by casting a shadow or throwing light onto a surface known as a <i>dial face</i> or <i>dial plate</i>. Although usually a flat plane, the dial face may also be the inner or outer surface of a sphere, cylinder, cone, helix, and various other shapes. </p><p>The time is indicated where a shadow or light falls on the dial face, which is usually inscribed with hour lines. Although usually straight, these hour lines may also be curved, depending on the design of the sundial (see below). In some designs, it is possible to determine the date of the year, or it may be required to know the date to find the correct time. In such cases, there may be multiple sets of hour lines for different months, or there may be mechanisms for setting/calculating the month. In addition to the hour lines, the dial face may offer other data—such as the horizon, the equator and the tropics—which are referred to collectively as the dial furniture. </p><p>The entire object that casts a shadow or light onto the dial face is known as the sundial's <i>gnomon</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-B.S.S._6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-B.S.S.-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, it is usually only an edge of the gnomon (or another linear feature) that casts the shadow used to determine the time; this linear feature is known as the sundial's <i>style</i>. The style is usually aligned parallel to the axis of the celestial sphere, and therefore is aligned with the local geographical meridian. In some sundial designs, only a point-like feature, such as the tip of the style, is used to determine the time and date; this point-like feature is known as the sundial's <i>nodus</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-B.S.S._6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-B.S.S.-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some sundials use both a style and a nodus to determine the time and date. </p><p>The gnomon is usually fixed relative to the dial face, but not always; in some designs such as the analemmatic sundial, the style is moved according to the month. If the style is fixed, the line on the dial plate perpendicularly beneath the style is called the <i>substyle</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-B.S.S._6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-B.S.S.-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> meaning "below the style". The angle the style makes with the plane of the dial plate is called the substyle height, an unusual use of the word <i>height</i> to mean an <i>angle</i>. On many wall dials, the substyle is not the same as the noon line (see below). The angle on the dial plate between the noon line and the substyle is called the <i>substyle distance</i>, an unusual use of the word <i>distance</i> to mean an <i>angle</i>. </p><p>By tradition, many sundials have a <a href="/wiki/Motto" title="Motto">motto</a>. The motto is usually in the form of an <a href="/wiki/Epigram" title="Epigram">epigram</a>: sometimes sombre reflections on the passing of time and the brevity of life, but equally often humorous witticisms of the dial maker. One such quip is, <i>I am a sundial, and I make a botch, Of what is done much better by a watch.</i><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A dial is said to be <i>equiangular</i> if its hour-lines are straight and spaced equally. Most equiangular sundials have a fixed gnomon style aligned with the Earth's rotational axis, as well as a shadow-receiving surface that is symmetrical about that axis; examples include the equatorial dial, the equatorial bow, the armillary sphere, the cylindrical dial and the conical dial. However, other designs are equiangular, such as the Lambert dial, a version of the <a href="/wiki/Analemmatic_sundial" title="Analemmatic sundial">analemmatic sundial</a> with a moveable style. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_the_Southern_Hemisphere">In the Southern Hemisphere</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: In the Southern Hemisphere"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sundial_in_Supreme_Court_Gardens,_Perth.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Sundial_in_Supreme_Court_Gardens%2C_Perth.jpg/230px-Sundial_in_Supreme_Court_Gardens%2C_Perth.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Sundial_in_Supreme_Court_Gardens%2C_Perth.jpg/345px-Sundial_in_Supreme_Court_Gardens%2C_Perth.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Sundial_in_Supreme_Court_Gardens%2C_Perth.jpg/460px-Sundial_in_Supreme_Court_Gardens%2C_Perth.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Southern-hemisphere sundial in <a href="/wiki/Perth" title="Perth">Perth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>. Magnify to see that the hour marks run anticlockwise. Note graph above the <a href="/wiki/Gnomon" title="Gnomon">gnomon</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Equation_of_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="Equation of Time">Equation of Time</a>, needed to correct sundial readings.</figcaption></figure> <p>A sundial at a particular <a href="/wiki/Earth#Orbit_and_rotation" title="Earth">latitude</a> in one <a href="/wiki/Sphere" title="Sphere">hemisphere</a> must be reversed for use at the opposite latitude in the other hemisphere.<sup id="cite_ref-C.S._9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-C.S.-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A vertical direct south sundial in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere" title="Northern Hemisphere">Northern Hemisphere</a> becomes a vertical direct north sundial in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Hemisphere" title="Southern Hemisphere">Southern Hemisphere</a>. To position a horizontal sundial correctly, one has to find true <a href="/wiki/North" title="North">north</a> or <a href="/wiki/South" title="South">south</a>. The same process can be used to do both.<sup id="cite_ref-S.P.01_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-S.P.01-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The gnomon, set to the correct latitude, has to point to the true south in the Southern Hemisphere as in the Northern Hemisphere it has to point to the true north.<sup id="cite_ref-S.P.02_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-S.P.02-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The hour numbers also run in opposite directions, so on a horizontal dial they run anticlockwise (US: counterclockwise) rather than clockwise.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sundials which are designed to be used with their plates horizontal in one hemisphere can be used with their plates vertical at the complementary latitude in the other hemisphere. For example, the illustrated sundial in <a href="/wiki/Perth" title="Perth">Perth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, which is at latitude 32° South, would function properly if it were mounted on a south-facing vertical wall at latitude 58° (i.e. 90° − 32°) North, which is slightly further north than <a href="/wiki/Perth,_Scotland" title="Perth, Scotland">Perth, Scotland</a>. The surface of the wall in Scotland would be parallel with the horizontal ground in Australia (ignoring the difference of longitude), so the sundial would work identically on both surfaces. Correspondingly, the hour marks, which run counterclockwise on a horizontal sundial in the southern hemisphere, also do so on a vertical sundial in the northern hemisphere. (See the first two illustrations at the top of this article.) On horizontal northern-hemisphere sundials, and on vertical southern-hemisphere ones, the hour marks run clockwise. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adjustments_to_calculate_clock_time_from_a_sundial_reading">Adjustments to calculate clock time from a sundial reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Adjustments to calculate clock time from a sundial reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The most common reason for a sundial to differ greatly from clock time is that the sundial has not been oriented correctly or its hour lines have not been drawn correctly. For example, most commercial sundials are designed as <i>horizontal sundials</i> as described above. To be accurate, such a sundial must have been designed for the local geographical latitude and its style must be parallel to the Earth's rotational axis; the style must be aligned with <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a> and its <i>height</i> (its angle with the horizontal) must equal the local latitude. To adjust the style height, the sundial can often be tilted slightly "up" or "down" while maintaining the style's north-south alignment.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Summer_(daylight_saving)_time_correction"><span id="Summer_.28daylight_saving.29_time_correction"></span>Summer (daylight saving) time correction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Summer (daylight saving) time correction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some areas of the world practice <a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">daylight saving time</a>, which changes the official time, usually by one hour. This shift must be added to the sundial's time to make it agree with the official time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Time-zone_(longitude)_correction"><span id="Time-zone_.28longitude.29_correction"></span>Time-zone (longitude) correction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Time-zone (longitude) correction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A standard <a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">time zone</a> covers roughly 15° of longitude, so any point within that zone which is not on the reference longitude (generally a multiple of 15°) will experience a difference from standard time that is equal to 4 minutes of time per degree. For illustration, sunsets and sunrises are at a much later "official" time at the western edge of a time-zone, compared to sunrise and sunset times at the eastern edge. If a sundial is located at, say, a longitude 5° west of the reference longitude, then its time will read 20 minutes slow, since the Sun appears to revolve around the Earth at 15° per hour. This is a constant correction throughout the year. For equiangular dials such as equatorial, spherical or Lambert dials, this correction can be made by rotating the dial surface by an angle equaling the difference in longitude, without changing the gnomon position or orientation. However, this method does not work for other dials, such as a horizontal dial; the correction must be applied by the viewer. </p><p>However, for political and practical reasons, time-zone boundaries have been skewed. At their most extreme, time zones can cause official noon, including daylight savings, to occur up to three hours early (in which case the Sun is actually on the <a href="/wiki/Meridian_(astronomy)" title="Meridian (astronomy)">meridian</a> at official clock time of 3 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PM</span></span>). This occurs in the far west of <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>. For more details and examples, see <a href="/wiki/Time_zones" class="mw-redirect" title="Time zones">time zones</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Equation_of_time_correction">Equation of time correction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Equation of time correction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Equation_of_time.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Equation_of_time.svg/220px-Equation_of_time.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="189" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Equation_of_time.svg/330px-Equation_of_time.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Equation_of_time.svg/440px-Equation_of_time.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="439" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Equation_of_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="Equation of Time">Equation of Time</a> – above the axis the equation of time is positive, and a sundial will appear <i>fast</i> relative to a clock showing local mean time. The opposites are true below the axis.</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Equation_of_time" title="Equation of time">Equation of time</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Derby_Sundial_C_5810.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Derby_Sundial_C_5810.JPG/170px-Derby_Sundial_C_5810.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Derby_Sundial_C_5810.JPG/255px-Derby_Sundial_C_5810.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Derby_Sundial_C_5810.JPG/340px-Derby_Sundial_C_5810.JPG 2x" data-file-width="495" data-file-height="654" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Whitehurst_%26_Son_sundial" title="Whitehurst & Son sundial">Whitehurst & Son sundial</a> made in 1812, with a circular scale showing the equation of time correction. This is now on display in the <a href="/wiki/Derby_Museum_and_Art_Gallery" title="Derby Museum and Art Gallery">Derby Museum.</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>Although the Sun appears to rotate uniformly about the Earth, in reality this motion is not perfectly uniform. This is due to the <a href="/wiki/Eccentricity_(mathematics)" title="Eccentricity (mathematics)">eccentricity</a> of the Earth's orbit (the fact that the <a href="/wiki/Earth%27s_orbit" title="Earth's orbit">Earth's orbit</a> about the Sun is not perfectly circular, but slightly <a href="/wiki/Ellipse" title="Ellipse">elliptical</a>) and the tilt (obliquity) of the Earth's rotational axis relative to the plane of its orbit. Therefore, sundial time varies from <a href="/wiki/Local_mean_time" title="Local mean time">standard clock time</a>. On four days of the year, the correction is effectively zero. However, on others, it can be as much as a quarter-hour early or late. The amount of correction is described by the <a href="/wiki/Equation_of_time" title="Equation of time">equation of time</a>. This correction is equal worldwide: it does not depend on the local <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a> or <a href="/wiki/Longitude" title="Longitude">longitude</a> of the observer's position. It does, however, change over long periods of time, (centuries or more,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) because of slow variations in the Earth's orbital and rotational motions. Therefore, tables and graphs of the equation of time that were made centuries ago are now significantly incorrect. The reading of an old sundial should be corrected by applying the present-day equation of time, not one from the period when the dial was made. </p><p>In some sundials, the equation of time correction is provided as an informational plaque affixed to the sundial, for the observer to calculate. In more sophisticated sundials the equation can be incorporated automatically. For example, some equatorial bow sundials are supplied with a small wheel that sets the time of year; this wheel in turn rotates the equatorial bow, offsetting its time measurement. In other cases, the hour lines may be curved, or the equatorial bow may be shaped like a vase, which exploits the changing altitude of the sun over the year to effect the proper offset in time.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <i>heliochronometer</i> is a precision sundial first devised in about 1763 by <a href="/wiki/Philipp_Matth%C3%A4us_Hahn" title="Philipp Matthäus Hahn">Philipp Hahn</a> and improved by Abbé Guyoux in about 1827.<sup id="cite_ref-Daniel2008_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daniel2008-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It corrects <a href="/wiki/Solar_time" title="Solar time">apparent solar time</a> to <a href="/wiki/Mean_solar_time" class="mw-redirect" title="Mean solar time">mean solar time</a> or another <a href="/wiki/Standard_time" title="Standard time">standard time</a>. Heliochronometers usually indicate the minutes to within 1 minute of <a href="/wiki/Universal_Time" title="Universal Time">Universal Time</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ROE-2012-05-07-0010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/ROE-2012-05-07-0010.jpg/220px-ROE-2012-05-07-0010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/ROE-2012-05-07-0010.jpg/330px-ROE-2012-05-07-0010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/ROE-2012-05-07-0010.jpg/440px-ROE-2012-05-07-0010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="664" /></a><figcaption>Sunquest sundial, designed by Richard L. Schmoyer, at the <a href="/wiki/Mount_Cuba_Observatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Cuba Observatory">Mount Cuba Observatory</a> in <a href="/wiki/Greenville,_Delaware" title="Greenville, Delaware">Greenville, Delaware</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Sunquest_sundial" title="Sunquest sundial">Sunquest sundial</a>, designed by Richard L. Schmoyer in the 1950s, uses an analemmic-inspired gnomon to cast a shaft of light onto an equatorial time-scale crescent. Sunquest is adjustable for latitude and longitude, automatically correcting for the equation of time, rendering it "as accurate as most pocket watches".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Similarly, in place of the shadow of a gnomon the sundial at Miguel Hernández University uses the solar projection of a graph of the equation of time intersecting a time scale to display clock time directly. </p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sundial_with_Equation_of_Time_correction.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Sundial_with_Equation_of_Time_correction.jpg/220px-Sundial_with_Equation_of_Time_correction.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Sundial_with_Equation_of_Time_correction.jpg/330px-Sundial_with_Equation_of_Time_correction.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Sundial_with_Equation_of_Time_correction.jpg/440px-Sundial_with_Equation_of_Time_correction.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>Sundial on the Orihuela Campus of <a href="/wiki/Miguel_Hern%C3%A1ndez_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Miguel Hernández University">Miguel Hernández University</a>, Spain, which uses a projected graph of the <a href="/wiki/Equation_of_time" title="Equation of time">equation of time</a> within the shadow to indicate clock time.</figcaption></figure> <p>An analemma may be added to many types of sundials to correct apparent solar time to <a href="/wiki/Mean_solar_time" class="mw-redirect" title="Mean solar time">mean solar time</a> or another <a href="/wiki/Standard_time" title="Standard time">standard time</a>. These usually have hour lines shaped like "figure eights" (<a href="/wiki/Analemma" title="Analemma">analemmas</a>) according to the <a href="/wiki/Equation_of_time" title="Equation of time">equation of time</a>. This compensates for the slight eccentricity in the Earth's orbit and the tilt of the Earth's axis that causes up to a 15 minute variation from mean solar time. This is a type of dial furniture seen on more complicated horizontal and vertical dials. </p><p>Prior to the invention of accurate clocks, in the mid 17th century, sundials were the only timepieces in common use, and were considered to tell the "right" time. The equation of time was not used. After the invention of good clocks, sundials were still considered to be correct, and clocks usually incorrect. The equation of time was used in the opposite direction from today, to apply a correction to the time shown by a clock to make it agree with sundial time. Some elaborate "<a href="/wiki/Equation_clock" title="Equation clock">equation clocks</a>", such as one made by Joseph Williamson in 1720, incorporated mechanisms to do this correction automatically. (Williamson's clock may have been the first-ever device to use a <a href="/wiki/Differential_(mechanical_device)" title="Differential (mechanical device)">differential</a> gear.) Only after about 1800 was uncorrected clock time considered to be "right", and sundial time usually "wrong", so the equation of time became used as it is today.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="With_fixed_axial_gnomon">With fixed axial gnomon</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: With fixed axial gnomon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The most commonly observed sundials are those in which the shadow-casting style is fixed in position and aligned with the Earth's rotational axis, being oriented with <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a> and south, and making an angle with the horizontal equal to the geographical latitude. This axis is aligned with the <a href="/wiki/Celestial_pole" title="Celestial pole">celestial poles</a>, which is closely, but not perfectly, aligned with the <a href="/wiki/Pole_star" title="Pole star">pole star</a> <a href="/wiki/Polaris" title="Polaris">Polaris</a>. For illustration, the celestial axis points vertically at the true <a href="/wiki/North_Pole" title="North Pole">North Pole</a>, whereas it points horizontally on the <a href="/wiki/Equator" title="Equator">equator</a>. The world's largest axial gnomon sundial is the mast of the <a href="/wiki/Sundial_Bridge_at_Turtle_Bay" title="Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay">Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay</a> in <a href="/wiki/Redding,_California" title="Redding, California">Redding, California </a>. A formerly world's largest gnomon is at <a href="/wiki/Jaipur" title="Jaipur">Jaipur</a>, raised 26°55′ above horizontal, reflecting the local latitude.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On any given day, the Sun appears to rotate uniformly about this axis, at about 15° per hour, making a full circuit (360°) in 24 hours. A linear gnomon aligned with this axis will cast a sheet of shadow (a half-plane) that, falling opposite to the Sun, likewise rotates about the celestial axis at 15° per hour. The shadow is seen by falling on a receiving surface that is usually flat, but which may be spherical, cylindrical, conical or of other shapes. If the shadow falls on a surface that is symmetrical about the celestial axis (as in an armillary sphere, or an equatorial dial), the surface-shadow likewise moves uniformly; the hour-lines on the sundial are equally spaced. However, if the receiving surface is not symmetrical (as in most horizontal sundials), the surface shadow generally moves non-uniformly and the hour-lines are not equally spaced; one exception is the Lambert dial described below. </p><p>Some types of sundials are designed with a fixed gnomon that is not aligned with the celestial poles like a vertical obelisk. Such sundials are covered below under the section, "Nodus-based sundials". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Empirical_hour-line_marking">Empirical hour-line marking</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Empirical hour-line marking"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Schema_for_horizontal_dials" title="Schema for horizontal dials">Schema for horizontal dials</a> and <a href="/wiki/Equation_of_time" title="Equation of time">Equation of time</a></div> <p>The formulas shown in the paragraphs below allow the positions of the hour-lines to be calculated for various types of sundial. In some cases, the calculations are simple; in others they are extremely complicated. There is an alternative, simple method of finding the positions of the hour-lines which can be used for many types of sundial, and saves a lot of work in cases where the calculations are complex.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is an empirical procedure in which the position of the shadow of the gnomon of a real sundial is marked at hourly intervals. The <a href="/wiki/Equation_of_time" title="Equation of time">equation of time</a> must be taken into account to ensure that the positions of the hour-lines are independent of the time of year when they are marked. An easy way to do this is to set a clock or watch so it shows "sundial time"<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is <a href="/wiki/Standard_time" title="Standard time">standard time</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> plus the equation of time on the day in question.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The hour-lines on the sundial are marked to show the positions of the shadow of the style when this clock shows whole numbers of hours, and are labelled with these numbers of hours. For example, when the clock reads 5:00, the shadow of the style is marked, and labelled "5" (or "V" in <a href="/wiki/Roman_numerals" title="Roman numerals">Roman numerals</a>). If the hour-lines are not all marked in a single day, the clock must be adjusted every day or two to take account of the variation of the equation of time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Equatorial_sundials">Equatorial sundials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Equatorial sundials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tower-bridge-and-olympic-rings.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Tower-bridge-and-olympic-rings.jpg/170px-Tower-bridge-and-olympic-rings.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Tower-bridge-and-olympic-rings.jpg/255px-Tower-bridge-and-olympic-rings.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Tower-bridge-and-olympic-rings.jpg/340px-Tower-bridge-and-olympic-rings.jpg 2x" data-file-width="938" data-file-height="570" /></a><figcaption><i>Timepiece</i>, <a href="/wiki/St_Katharine_Docks" title="St Katharine Docks">St Katharine Docks</a>, London (1973) an equinoctial dial by <a href="/wiki/Wendy_Taylor" title="Wendy Taylor">Wendy Taylor</a><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beijing_sundial.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Beijing_sundial.jpg/170px-Beijing_sundial.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Beijing_sundial.jpg/255px-Beijing_sundial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Beijing_sundial.jpg/340px-Beijing_sundial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1632" data-file-height="1232" /></a><figcaption>An equatorial sundial in the <a href="/wiki/Forbidden_City" title="Forbidden City">Forbidden City</a>, Beijing. <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sundial&params=39.9157_N_116.3904_E_type:landmark&title=Forbidden+City+equatorial+sundial"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">39°54′57″N</span> <span class="longitude">116°23′25″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">39.9157°N 116.3904°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">39.9157; 116.3904</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Forbidden City equatorial sundial</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> The gnomon points <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a> and its angle with horizontal equals the local <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a>. Closer inspection of the <a href="/wiki/File:Beijing_sundial.jpg" title="File:Beijing sundial.jpg">full-size image</a> reveals the "spider-web" of date rings and hour-lines.</figcaption></figure> <p><span class="anchor" id="equinoctial_sundial"></span>The distinguishing characteristic of the <i>equatorial dial</i> (also called the <i>equinoctial dial</i>) is the planar surface that receives the shadow, which is exactly perpendicular to the gnomon's style.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This plane is called equatorial, because it is parallel to the equator of the Earth and of the celestial sphere. If the gnomon is fixed and aligned with the Earth's rotational axis, the sun's apparent rotation about the Earth casts a uniformly rotating sheet of shadow from the gnomon; this produces a uniformly rotating line of shadow on the equatorial plane. Since the Earth rotates 360° in 24 hours, the hour-lines on an equatorial dial are all spaced 15° apart (360/24). </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle H_{E}=15^{\circ }\times t{\text{ (hours)}}~.}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>E</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext> (hours)</mtext> </mrow> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>.</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle H_{E}=15^{\circ }\times t{\text{ (hours)}}~.}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/183ea92e9a68875aa79efcd4454b65c3958b25d3" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:22.769ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle H_{E}=15^{\circ }\times t{\text{ (hours)}}~.}"></span></dd></dl> <p>The uniformity of their spacing makes this type of sundial easy to construct. If the dial plate material is opaque, both sides of the equatorial dial must be marked, since the shadow will be cast from below in winter and from above in summer. With translucent dial plates (e.g. glass) the hour angles need only be marked on the sun-facing side, although the hour numberings (if used) need be made on both sides of the dial, owing to the differing hour schema on the sun-facing and sun-backing sides. </p><p>Another major advantage of this dial is that equation of time (EoT) and daylight saving time (DST) corrections can be made by simply rotating the dial plate by the appropriate angle each day. This is because the hour angles are equally spaced around the dial. For this reason, an equatorial dial is often a useful choice when the dial is for public display and it is desirable to have it show the true local time to reasonable accuracy. The EoT correction is made via the relation </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\text{Correction}}^{\circ }={\frac {{\text{EoT (minutes)}}+60\times \Delta {\text{DST (hours)}}}{4}}~.}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msup> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>Correction</mtext> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>EoT (minutes)</mtext> </mrow> <mo>+</mo> <mn>60</mn> <mo>×</mo> <mi mathvariant="normal">Δ</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>DST (hours)</mtext> </mrow> </mrow> <mn>4</mn> </mfrac> </mrow> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>.</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\text{Correction}}^{\circ }={\frac {{\text{EoT (minutes)}}+60\times \Delta {\text{DST (hours)}}}{4}}~.}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/1f5613d9ced10cbc52532ddb659b9b45fc17867d" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -1.838ex; width:54.439ex; height:5.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\text{Correction}}^{\circ }={\frac {{\text{EoT (minutes)}}+60\times \Delta {\text{DST (hours)}}}{4}}~.}"></span></dd></dl> <p>Near the <a href="/wiki/Equinox" title="Equinox">equinoxes</a> in spring and autumn, the sun moves on a circle that is nearly the same as the equatorial plane; hence, no clear shadow is produced on the equatorial dial at those times of year, a drawback of the design. </p><p>A <i>nodus</i> is sometimes added to equatorial sundials, which allows the sundial to tell the time of year. On any given day, the shadow of the nodus moves on a circle on the equatorial plane, and the radius of the circle measures the <a href="/wiki/Declination" title="Declination">declination</a> of the sun. The ends of the gnomon bar may be used as the nodus, or some feature along its length. An ancient variant of the equatorial sundial has only a nodus (no style) and the concentric circular hour-lines are arranged to resemble a spider-web.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Horizontal_sundials">Horizontal sundials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Horizontal sundials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a more detailed description of such a dial, see <a href="/wiki/London_dial" title="London dial">London dial</a> and <a href="/wiki/Whitehurst_%26_Son_sundial_(1812)" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitehurst & Son sundial (1812)">Whitehurst & Son sundial (1812)</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Garden_sundial_MN_2007.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Garden_sundial_MN_2007.JPG/170px-Garden_sundial_MN_2007.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Garden_sundial_MN_2007.JPG/255px-Garden_sundial_MN_2007.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Garden_sundial_MN_2007.JPG/340px-Garden_sundial_MN_2007.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2576" data-file-height="1932" /></a><figcaption>Horizontal sundial in <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a>. June 17, 2007 at 12:21. 44°51′39.3″N, 93°36′58.4″W</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <i>horizontal sundial</i> (also called a <i>garden sundial</i>), the plane that receives the shadow is aligned horizontally, rather than being perpendicular to the style as in the equatorial dial.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hence, the line of shadow does not rotate uniformly on the dial face; rather, the hour lines are spaced according to the rule.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{H}=\sin L\ \tan \left(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ \right)\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>H</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mrow> <mo>(</mo> <mrow> <mtext> </mtext> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mrow> <mo>)</mo> </mrow> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{H}=\sin L\ \tan \left(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ \right)\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/d786e19bac410383bf68d1f68dcbd069a8d2474f" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:31.199ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{H}=\sin L\ \tan \left(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ \right)\ }"></span></dd></dl> <p>Or in other terms: </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ H_{H}=\tan ^{-1}\left[\ \sin L\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ \right]}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>H</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mi>tan</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>−</mo> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> </msup> <mo>⁡</mo> <mrow> <mo>[</mo> <mrow> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mtext> </mtext> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> </mrow> <mo>]</mo> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ H_{H}=\tan ^{-1}\left[\ \sin L\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ \right]}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/a64e8fed81da123497ee5978d4f03e65706ee64d" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:35.019ex; height:3.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ H_{H}=\tan ^{-1}\left[\ \sin L\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ \right]}"></span></dd></dl> <p>where L is the sundial's geographical <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a> (and the angle the gnomon makes with the dial plate), <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ H_{H}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>H</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ H_{H}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/8b59b0a661a556c4dd038dc95d2c074b4ee2cca5" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.784ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ H_{H}\ }"></span> is the angle between a given hour-line and the noon hour-line (which always points towards <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a>) on the plane, and <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">t</span> is the number of hours before or after noon. For example, the angle <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ H_{H}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>H</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ H_{H}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/8b59b0a661a556c4dd038dc95d2c074b4ee2cca5" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.784ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ H_{H}\ }"></span> of the 3 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PM</span></span> hour-line would equal the <a href="/wiki/Inverse_trigonometric_function" class="mw-redirect" title="Inverse trigonometric function">arctangent</a> of <span class="nowrap"> <a href="/wiki/Trigonometric_function" class="mw-redirect" title="Trigonometric function">sin</a> <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">L</span> ,</span> since tan 45° = 1. When <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ L=90^{\circ }\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>L</mi> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>90</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ L=90^{\circ }\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/218ec5b0309f2daf9c4ac9f747e5b41a5c306a68" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:9.222ex; height:2.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ L=90^{\circ }\ }"></span> (at the <a href="/wiki/North_Pole" title="North Pole">North Pole</a>), the horizontal sundial becomes an equatorial sundial; the style points straight up (vertically), and the horizontal plane is aligned with the equatorial plane; the hour-line formula becomes <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ H_{H}=15^{\circ }\times t\ ,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>H</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ H_{H}=15^{\circ }\times t\ ,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/04ed08a00684b69bc00ed51d2203401a97f6620b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:15.588ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ H_{H}=15^{\circ }\times t\ ,}"></span> as for an equatorial dial. A horizontal sundial at the Earth's <a href="/wiki/Equator" title="Equator">equator</a>, where <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ L=0^{\circ }\ ,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>L</mi> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>0</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ L=0^{\circ }\ ,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/38eb21dd7b190d93b307083b933a1b6879608b29" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:8.706ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ L=0^{\circ }\ ,}"></span> would require a (raised) horizontal style and would be an example of a polar sundial (see below). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kew_Gardens_0502.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Kew_Gardens_0502.JPG/220px-Kew_Gardens_0502.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Kew_Gardens_0502.JPG/330px-Kew_Gardens_0502.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Kew_Gardens_0502.JPG/440px-Kew_Gardens_0502.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Detail of horizontal sundial outside <a href="/wiki/Kew_Palace" title="Kew Palace">Kew Palace</a> in London, United Kingdom</figcaption></figure> <p>The chief advantages of the horizontal sundial are that it is easy to read, and the sunlight lights the face throughout the year. All the hour-lines intersect at the point where the gnomon's style crosses the horizontal plane. Since the style is aligned with the Earth's rotational axis, the style points <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a> and its angle with the horizontal equals the sundial's geographical latitude <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">L</span> . A sundial designed for one <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a> can be adjusted for use at another latitude by tilting its base upwards or downwards by an angle equal to the difference in latitude. For example, a sundial designed for a latitude of 40° can be used at a latitude of 45°, if the sundial plane is tilted upwards by 5°, thus aligning the style with the Earth's rotational axis. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Many ornamental sundials are designed to be used at 45 degrees north. Some mass-produced garden sundials fail to correctly calculate the <i>hourlines</i> and so can never be corrected. A local standard <a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">time zone</a> is nominally 15 degrees wide, but may be modified to follow geographic or political boundaries. A sundial can be rotated around its style (which must remain pointed at the celestial pole) to adjust to the local time zone. In most cases, a rotation in the range of 7.5° east to 23° west suffices. This will introduce error in sundials that do not have equal hour angles. To correct for <a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">daylight saving time</a>, a face needs two sets of numerals or a correction table. An informal standard is to have numerals in hot colors for summer, and in cool colors for winter.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Since the hour angles are not evenly spaced, the equation of time corrections cannot be made via rotating the dial plate about the gnomon axis. These types of dials usually have an equation of time correction tabulation engraved on their pedestals or close by. Horizontal dials are commonly seen in gardens, churchyards and in public areas. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vertical_sundials">Vertical sundials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Vertical sundials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Houghton_Hall_Norfolk_UK_4-face_sundial.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Houghton_Hall_Norfolk_UK_4-face_sundial.jpg/220px-Houghton_Hall_Norfolk_UK_4-face_sundial.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Houghton_Hall_Norfolk_UK_4-face_sundial.jpg/330px-Houghton_Hall_Norfolk_UK_4-face_sundial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Houghton_Hall_Norfolk_UK_4-face_sundial.jpg/440px-Houghton_Hall_Norfolk_UK_4-face_sundial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1040" data-file-height="470" /></a><figcaption>Two vertical dials at <a href="/wiki/Houghton_Hall" title="Houghton Hall">Houghton Hall</a> <a href="/wiki/Norfolk" title="Norfolk">Norfolk</a> <a href="/wiki/UK" class="mw-redirect" title="UK">UK</a> <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sundial&params=52.827469_N_0.657616_E_type:landmark&title=Houghton+Hall+vertical+sundials"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">52°49′39″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°39′27″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">52.827469°N 0.657616°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">52.827469; 0.657616</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Houghton Hall vertical sundials</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span>. The left and right dials face south and east, respectively. Both styles are parallel, their angle to the horizontal equaling the latitude. The east-facing dial is a polar dial with parallel hour-lines, the dial-face being parallel to the style.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the common <i>vertical dial</i>, the shadow-receiving plane is aligned vertically; as usual, the gnomon's style is aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As in the horizontal dial, the line of shadow does not move uniformly on the face; the sundial is not <i>equiangular</i>. If the face of the vertical dial points directly south, the angle of the hour-lines is instead described by the formula<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \tan H_{V}=\cos L\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>V</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mtext> </mtext> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \tan H_{V}=\cos L\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/c507d2043796b76c3c702af7440bb5ad1ff22943" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:30.291ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \tan H_{V}=\cos L\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }"></span></dd></dl> <p>where <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">L</span> is the sundial's geographical <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a>, <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ H_{V}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>V</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ H_{V}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/0167a55e4b9a30b0479e81494ffd7b5200dccd94" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.589ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ H_{V}\ }"></span> is the angle between a given hour-line and the noon hour-line (which always points due north) on the plane, and <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">t</span> is the number of hours before or after noon. For example, the angle <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ H_{V}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>V</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ H_{V}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/0167a55e4b9a30b0479e81494ffd7b5200dccd94" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.589ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ H_{V}\ }"></span> of the 3 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">P.M.</span></span> hour-line would equal the <a href="/wiki/Inverse_trigonometric_function" class="mw-redirect" title="Inverse trigonometric function">arctangent</a> of <span class="nowrap"> <a href="/wiki/Trigonometric_function" class="mw-redirect" title="Trigonometric function">cos</a> <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">L</span> ,</span> since <span class="nowrap"><span class="texhtml"> tan 45° = 1 </span> .</span> The shadow moves <i>counter-clockwise</i> on a south-facing vertical dial, whereas it runs clockwise on horizontal and equatorial north-facing dials. </p><p>Dials with faces perpendicular to the ground and which face directly south, north, east, or west are called <i>vertical direct dials</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is widely believed, and stated in respectable publications, that a vertical dial cannot receive more than twelve hours of sunlight a day, no matter how many hours of daylight there are.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, there is an exception. Vertical sundials in the tropics which face the nearer pole (e.g. north facing in the zone between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer) can actually receive sunlight for more than 12 hours from sunrise to sunset for a short period around the time of the summer solstice. For example, at latitude 20° North, on June 21, the sun shines on a north-facing vertical wall for 13 hours, 21 minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-Sunrise_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sunrise-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vertical sundials which do <i>not</i> face directly south (in the northern hemisphere) may receive significantly less than twelve hours of sunlight per day, depending on the direction they do face, and on the time of year. For example, a vertical dial that faces due East can tell time only in the morning hours; in the afternoon, the sun does not shine on its face. Vertical dials that face due East or West are <i>polar dials</i>, which will be described below. Vertical dials that face north are uncommon, because they tell time only during the spring and summer, and do not show the midday hours except in tropical latitudes (and even there, only around midsummer). For non-direct vertical dials – those that face in non-cardinal directions – the mathematics of arranging the style and the hour-lines becomes more complicated; it may be easier to mark the hour lines by observation, but the placement of the style, at least, must be calculated first; such dials are said to be <i>declining dials</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nov%C3%A9_M%C4%9Bsto_nad_Metuj%C3%AD_sundials_2011_3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Nov%C3%A9_M%C4%9Bsto_nad_Metuj%C3%AD_sundials_2011_3.jpg/170px-Nov%C3%A9_M%C4%9Bsto_nad_Metuj%C3%AD_sundials_2011_3.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Nov%C3%A9_M%C4%9Bsto_nad_Metuj%C3%AD_sundials_2011_3.jpg/255px-Nov%C3%A9_M%C4%9Bsto_nad_Metuj%C3%AD_sundials_2011_3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Nov%C3%A9_M%C4%9Bsto_nad_Metuj%C3%AD_sundials_2011_3.jpg/340px-Nov%C3%A9_M%C4%9Bsto_nad_Metuj%C3%AD_sundials_2011_3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1980" /></a><figcaption>"Double" sundials in <a href="/wiki/Nov%C3%A9_M%C4%9Bsto_nad_Metuj%C3%AD" title="Nové Město nad Metují">Nové Město nad Metují</a>, Czech Republic; the observer is facing almost due north.</figcaption></figure> <p>Vertical dials are commonly mounted on the walls of buildings, such as town-halls, <a href="/wiki/Cupola" title="Cupola">cupolas</a> and church-towers, where they are easy to see from far away. In some cases, vertical dials are placed on all four sides of a rectangular tower, providing the time throughout the day. The face may be painted on the wall, or displayed in inlaid stone; the gnomon is often a single metal bar, or a tripod of metal bars for rigidity. If the wall of the building faces <i>toward</i> the south, but does not face due south, the gnomon will not lie along the noon line, and the hour lines must be corrected. Since the gnomon's style must be parallel to the Earth's axis, it always "points" <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a> and its angle with the horizontal will equal the sundial's geographical latitude; on a direct south dial, its angle with the vertical face of the dial will equal the <a href="/wiki/Colatitude" title="Colatitude">colatitude</a>, or 90° minus the latitude.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Polar_dials">Polar dials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Polar dials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sundial_-_Melbourne_Planetarium.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Sundial_-_Melbourne_Planetarium.jpg/220px-Sundial_-_Melbourne_Planetarium.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Sundial_-_Melbourne_Planetarium.jpg/330px-Sundial_-_Melbourne_Planetarium.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Sundial_-_Melbourne_Planetarium.jpg/440px-Sundial_-_Melbourne_Planetarium.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4928" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>Polar sundial at <a href="/wiki/Scienceworks_(Melbourne)" title="Scienceworks (Melbourne)">Melbourne Planetarium</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Reloj_de_sol_polar_en_Donramiro_(Lal%C3%ADn,_Espa%C3%B1a).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Reloj_de_sol_polar_en_Donramiro_%28Lal%C3%ADn%2C_Espa%C3%B1a%29.jpg/220px-Reloj_de_sol_polar_en_Donramiro_%28Lal%C3%ADn%2C_Espa%C3%B1a%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Reloj_de_sol_polar_en_Donramiro_%28Lal%C3%ADn%2C_Espa%C3%B1a%29.jpg/330px-Reloj_de_sol_polar_en_Donramiro_%28Lal%C3%ADn%2C_Espa%C3%B1a%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Reloj_de_sol_polar_en_Donramiro_%28Lal%C3%ADn%2C_Espa%C3%B1a%29.jpg/440px-Reloj_de_sol_polar_en_Donramiro_%28Lal%C3%ADn%2C_Espa%C3%B1a%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4496" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Monumental polar sundial in <a href="/wiki/Lal%C3%ADn" title="Lalín">Lalín</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>In <i>polar dials</i>, the shadow-receiving plane is aligned <i>parallel</i> to the gnomon-style.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, the shadow slides sideways over the surface, moving perpendicularly to itself as the Sun rotates about the style. As with the gnomon, the hour-lines are all aligned with the Earth's rotational axis. When the Sun's rays are nearly parallel to the plane, the shadow moves very quickly and the hour lines are spaced far apart. The direct East- and West-facing dials are examples of a polar dial. However, the face of a polar dial need not be vertical; it need only be parallel to the gnomon. Thus, a plane inclined at the angle of latitude (relative to horizontal) under the similarly inclined gnomon will be a polar dial. The perpendicular spacing <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">X</span> of the hour-lines in the plane is described by the formula </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle X=H\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>X</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mi>H</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mtext> </mtext> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle X=H\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/11c972313e993714d68444efa4790ba2eddf1cd8" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:22.08ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle X=H\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }"></span></dd></dl> <p>where <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">H</span> is the height of the style above the plane, and <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">t</span> is the time (in hours) before or after the center-time for the polar dial. The center time is the time when the style's shadow falls directly down on the plane; for an East-facing dial, the center time will be 6 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">A.M.</span></span>, for a West-facing dial, this will be 6 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">P.M.</span></span>, and for the inclined dial described above, it will be noon. When <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">t</span> approaches ±6 hours away from the center time, the spacing <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">X</span> diverges to <a href="/wiki/Extended_real_number_line" title="Extended real number line">+∞</a>; this occurs when the Sun's rays become parallel to the plane. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vertical_declining_dials">Vertical declining dials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Vertical declining dials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Verticalezonnewijzers-en.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Verticalezonnewijzers-en.jpg/600px-Verticalezonnewijzers-en.jpg" decoding="async" width="600" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Verticalezonnewijzers-en.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="201" /></a><figcaption>Effect of declining on a sundial's hour-lines. A vertical dial, at a latitude of 51° N, designed to face due south (far left) shows all the hours from 6 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">A.M.</span></span> to 6 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">P.M.</span></span>, and has converging hour-lines symmetrical about the noon hour-line. By contrast, a West-facing dial (far right) is polar, with parallel hour lines, and shows only hours after noon. At the intermediate orientations of <a href="/wiki/Boxing_the_compass" class="mw-redirect" title="Boxing the compass">south-southwest, southwest, and west-southwest</a>, the hour lines are asymmetrical about noon, with the morning hour-lines ever more widely spaced.</figcaption></figure> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vertical_Sundial_at_Fatih_Mosque.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Vertical_Sundial_at_Fatih_Mosque.jpg/170px-Vertical_Sundial_at_Fatih_Mosque.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Vertical_Sundial_at_Fatih_Mosque.jpg/255px-Vertical_Sundial_at_Fatih_Mosque.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Vertical_Sundial_at_Fatih_Mosque.jpg/340px-Vertical_Sundial_at_Fatih_Mosque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>Two sundials, a large and a small one, at <a href="/wiki/Fatih_Mosque" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatih Mosque">Fatih Mosque</a>, <a href="/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a> dating back to the late 16th century. It is on the southwest facade with an azimuth angle of 52° N.</figcaption></figure> <p>A <i>declining dial</i> is any non-horizontal, planar dial that does not face in a cardinal direction, such as (true) <a href="/wiki/North" title="North">north</a>, <a href="/wiki/South" title="South">south</a>, <a href="/wiki/East" title="East">east</a> or <a href="/wiki/West" title="West">west</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As usual, the gnomon's style is aligned with the Earth's rotational axis, but the hour-lines are not symmetrical about the noon hour-line. For a vertical dial, the angle <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ H_{\text{VD}}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>VD</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ H_{\text{VD}}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/e2cd5ca3cb396bb42d53b487517bd385217e8643" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:5.813ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ H_{\text{VD}}\ }"></span> between the noon hour-line and another hour-line is given by the formula below. Note that <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ H_{\text{VD}}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>VD</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ H_{\text{VD}}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/e2cd5ca3cb396bb42d53b487517bd385217e8643" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:5.813ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ H_{\text{VD}}\ }"></span> is defined positive in the clockwise sense w.r.t. the upper vertical hour angle; and that its conversion to the equivalent solar hour requires careful consideration of which quadrant of the sundial that it belongs in.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \tan H_{\text{VD}}={\frac {\cos L}{\ \cos D\ \cot(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )-s_{o}\ \sin L\ \sin D\ }}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>VD</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> </mrow> <mrow> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cot</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mtext> </mtext> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mo>−</mo> <msub> <mi>s</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>o</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \tan H_{\text{VD}}={\frac {\cos L}{\ \cos D\ \cot(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )-s_{o}\ \sin L\ \sin D\ }}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/1da4dd15b13badf84f5cbb6c9f6f90f2257606d1" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -2.671ex; width:50.289ex; height:6.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \tan H_{\text{VD}}={\frac {\cos L}{\ \cos D\ \cot(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )-s_{o}\ \sin L\ \sin D\ }}}"></span></dd></dl> <p>where <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ L\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ L\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/395485b3365351e0cee16ad4ee5e43ea7556cf0e" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.744ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ L\ }"></span> is the sundial's geographical <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a>; <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">t</span> is the time before or after noon; <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ D\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ D\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/7c9cb22fd491fa1da693745897760753c3f46116" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:3.086ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ D\ }"></span> is the angle of declination from true <a href="/wiki/South" title="South">south</a>, defined as positive when east of south; and <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ s_{o}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>s</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>o</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ s_{o}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6415f5bcf878fe9ed995d5b5bb22e9bc15c5898c" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:3.281ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ s_{o}\ }"></span> is a switch integer for the dial orientation. A partly south-facing dial has an <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ s_{o}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>s</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>o</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ s_{o}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6415f5bcf878fe9ed995d5b5bb22e9bc15c5898c" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:3.281ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ s_{o}\ }"></span> value of <span class="nowrap"><span class="texhtml"> +1 </span> ;</span> those partly north-facing, a value of <span class="nowrap"><span class="texhtml"> −1 </span>.</span> When such a dial faces south (<span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ D=0^{\circ }\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>D</mi> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>0</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ D=0^{\circ }\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/352e1aa0657360e4e827e1f5480100e69c402746" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:8.401ex; height:2.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ D=0^{\circ }\ }"></span>), this formula reduces to the formula given above for vertical south-facing dials, i.e. </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{\text{V}}=\cos L\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>V</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mtext> </mtext> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{\text{V}}=\cos L\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/497f88fdae110f9eb88d07a9d02c84b2a4d8aa2b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:31.228ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{\text{V}}=\cos L\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }"></span></dd></dl> <p>When a sundial is not aligned with a cardinal direction, the substyle of its gnomon is not aligned with the noon hour-line. The angle <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ B\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>B</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ B\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/133094fdb08caaffb16f958078426a6907643f14" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.925ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ B\ }"></span> between the substyle and the noon hour-line is given by the formula<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \tan B=\sin D\ \cot L}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>B</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cot</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \tan B=\sin D\ \cot L}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/9e2812e561b216c20aedab565b1afbf32974949e" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:19.813ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \tan B=\sin D\ \cot L}"></span></dd></dl> <p>If a vertical sundial faces trUe south Or north (<span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ D=0^{\circ }\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>D</mi> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>0</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ D=0^{\circ }\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/352e1aa0657360e4e827e1f5480100e69c402746" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:8.401ex; height:2.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ D=0^{\circ }\ }"></span> or <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ D=180^{\circ }\ ,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>D</mi> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>180</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ D=180^{\circ }\ ,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/56769ec7c6de9d6edaf7631059e5ba0e6a2d6755" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:11.372ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ D=180^{\circ }\ ,}"></span> respectively), the angle <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ B=0^{\circ }\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>B</mi> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>0</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ B=0^{\circ }\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/28c8c1d3cbf17d87282bc71c9945bc1c923d7787" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:8.24ex; height:2.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ B=0^{\circ }\ }"></span> and the substyle is aligned with the noon hour-line. </p><p>The height of the gnomon, that is the angle the style makes to the plate, <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ G\ ,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>G</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ G\ ,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/e97b8a0015758469fb3a014a270b9915af1db360" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:3.635ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ G\ ,}"></span> is given by : </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ \sin G=\cos D\ \cos L~}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>G</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ \sin G=\cos D\ \cos L~}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/7736e36c99a382483dd74653d9b56c1ffc750d42" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:21.188ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ \sin G=\cos D\ \cos L~}"></span><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reclining_dials">Reclining dials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Reclining dials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RelSolValongo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/RelSolValongo.jpg/220px-RelSolValongo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/RelSolValongo.jpg/330px-RelSolValongo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/RelSolValongo.jpg/440px-RelSolValongo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1136" data-file-height="852" /></a><figcaption>Vertical reclining dial in the Southern Hemisphere, facing due north, with hyperbolic declination lines and hour lines. Ordinary vertical sundial at this latitude (between tropics) could not produce a declination line for the summer solstice. This particular sundial is located at the <a href="/wiki/Valongo_Observatory" title="Valongo Observatory">Valongo Observatory</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_University_of_Rio_de_Janeiro" title="Federal University of Rio de Janeiro">Federal University of Rio de Janeiro</a>, Brazil.</figcaption></figure> <p>The sundials described above have gnomons that are aligned with the Earth's rotational axis and cast their shadow onto a plane. If the plane is neither vertical nor horizontal nor equatorial, the sundial is said to be <i>reclining</i> or <i>inclining</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such a sundial might be located on a south-facing roof, for example. The hour-lines for such a sundial can be calculated by slightly correcting the horizontal formula above<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{RV}=\cos(\ L+R\ )\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>R</mi> <mi>V</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>L</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mtext> </mtext> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{RV}=\cos(\ L+R\ )\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/76a45b8676a08a21c33ce53670e6117f850711ce" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:39.694ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{RV}=\cos(\ L+R\ )\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }"></span></dd></dl> <p>where <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ R\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>R</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ R\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/bb46873223ab58ba83c959c590be4a27cf67bd6b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.925ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ R\ }"></span> is the desired angle of reclining relative to the local vertical, <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">L</span> is the sundial's geographical latitude, <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ H_{RV}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>R</mi> <mi>V</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ H_{RV}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/50497bd7fe1891d8279d175ced4c62ecb006cfa8" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:5.836ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ H_{RV}\ }"></span> is the angle between a given hour-line and the noon hour-line (which always points due north) on the plane, and <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">t</span> is the number of hours before or after noon. For example, the angle <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ H_{RV}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>R</mi> <mi>V</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ H_{RV}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/50497bd7fe1891d8279d175ced4c62ecb006cfa8" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:5.836ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ H_{RV}\ }"></span> of the 3pm hour-line would equal the <a href="/wiki/Inverse_trigonometric_function" class="mw-redirect" title="Inverse trigonometric function">arctangent</a> of <span class="nowrap"> <span class="texhtml"><a href="/wiki/Trigonometric_function" class="mw-redirect" title="Trigonometric function">cos</a>( <i>L</i> + <i>R</i> )</span> ,</span> since <span class="nowrap"> <span class="texhtml"> tan 45° = 1 </span> .</span> When <span class="nowrap"> <span class="texhtml"><i>R</i> = 0°</span> </span> (in other words, a south-facing vertical dial), we obtain the vertical dial formula above. </p><p>Some authors use a more specific nomenclature to describe the orientation of the shadow-receiving plane. If the plane's face points downwards towards the ground, it is said to be <i>proclining</i> or <i>inclining</i>, whereas a dial is said to be <i>reclining</i> when the dial face is pointing away from the ground. Many authors also often refer to reclined, proclined and inclined sundials in general as inclined sundials. It is also common in the latter case to measure the angle of inclination relative to the horizontal plane on the sun side of the dial. In such texts, since <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ I=90^{\circ }+R\ ,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>I</mi> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>90</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>+</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ I=90^{\circ }+R\ ,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/aa14f8835c38f5845beac13ac6f478e7c8f42465" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:14.062ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ I=90^{\circ }+R\ ,}"></span> the hour angle formula will often be seen written as : </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \tan H_{RV}=\sin(L+I)\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>R</mi> <mi>V</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>I</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mtext> </mtext> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \tan H_{RV}=\sin(L+I)\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/993a18a4fef83c079b4907949ff8c2910f3f664f" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:36.717ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \tan H_{RV}=\sin(L+I)\ \tan(\ 15^{\circ }\times t\ )\ }"></span></dd></dl> <p>The angle between the gnomon style and the dial plate, B, in this type of sundial is : </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle B=90^{\circ }-(L+R)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>B</mi> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>90</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>−</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle B=90^{\circ }-(L+R)}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/990bfc114228c9e157da929dd4fb8264272c66ce" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:19.079ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle B=90^{\circ }-(L+R)}"></span></dd></dl> <p>or : </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle B=180^{\circ }-(L+I)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>B</mi> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>180</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>−</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>I</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle B=180^{\circ }-(L+I)}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/19c18bf3579fafdc4db056b6a87787ccd8d51222" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:19.649ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle B=180^{\circ }-(L+I)}"></span></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Declining-reclining_dials/_Declining-inclining_dials"><span id="Declining-reclining_dials.2F_Declining-inclining_dials"></span>Declining-reclining dials/ Declining-inclining dials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Declining-reclining dials/ Declining-inclining dials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some sundials both decline and recline, in that their shadow-receiving plane is not oriented with a cardinal direction (such as <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a> or true south) and is neither horizontal nor vertical nor equatorial. For example, such a sundial might be found on a roof that was not oriented in a cardinal direction. </p><p>The formulae describing the spacing of the hour-lines on such dials are rather more complicated than those for simpler dials. </p><p>There are various solution approaches, including some using the methods of rotation matrices, and some making a 3D model of the reclined-declined plane and its vertical declined counterpart plane, extracting the geometrical relationships between the hour angle components on both these planes and then reducing the trigonometric algebra.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrandmaier200516–23Vol._12,_Issue_1Snyder2015Vol._22,_Issue_1_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrandmaier200516–23Vol._12,_Issue_1Snyder2015Vol._22,_Issue_1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One system of formulas for Reclining-Declining sundials: (as stated by Fennewick)<sup id="cite_ref-Fennewick_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fennewick-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The angle <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ H_{\text{RD}}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>RD</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ H_{\text{RD}}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f3e4b00fa3923f7bf0aadca4492aa455312f438b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:5.79ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ H_{\text{RD}}\ }"></span> between the noon hour-line and another hour-line is given by the formula below. Note that <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ H_{\text{RD}}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>RD</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ H_{\text{RD}}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f3e4b00fa3923f7bf0aadca4492aa455312f438b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:5.79ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ H_{\text{RD}}\ }"></span> advances counterclockwise with respect to the zero hour angle for those dials that are partly south-facing and clockwise for those that are north-facing. </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{\text{RD}}={\frac {\ \cos R\ \cos L-\sin R\ \sin L\ \cos D-s_{o}\sin R\sin D\cot(15^{\circ }\times t)\ }{\ \cos D\ \cot(15^{\circ }\times t)-s_{o}\sin D\ \sin L}}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>RD</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mo>−</mo> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mo>−</mo> <msub> <mi>s</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>o</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mi>cot</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> </mrow> <mrow> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cot</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mo>−</mo> <msub> <mi>s</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>o</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{\text{RD}}={\frac {\ \cos R\ \cos L-\sin R\ \sin L\ \cos D-s_{o}\sin R\sin D\cot(15^{\circ }\times t)\ }{\ \cos D\ \cot(15^{\circ }\times t)-s_{o}\sin D\ \sin L}}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/c01d46dbbbcbef74f41b19075def7491ec4421db" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -2.671ex; width:75.012ex; height:6.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{\text{RD}}={\frac {\ \cos R\ \cos L-\sin R\ \sin L\ \cos D-s_{o}\sin R\sin D\cot(15^{\circ }\times t)\ }{\ \cos D\ \cot(15^{\circ }\times t)-s_{o}\sin D\ \sin L}}\ }"></span></dd></dl> <p>within the parameter ranges : <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ D<D_{c}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>D</mi> <mo><</mo> <msub> <mi>D</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>c</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ D<D_{c}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/8b01df2816f4e545af10ea1e85c7a79d6a5b4796" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:9.052ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ D<D_{c}\ }"></span> and <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle -90^{\circ }<R<(90^{\circ }-L)~.}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo>−</mo> <msup> <mn>90</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo><</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mo><</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <msup> <mn>90</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>−</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>.</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle -90^{\circ }<R<(90^{\circ }-L)~.}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/5f43f10519fbf147e2b249ee3d161ff429b2105b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:23.987ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle -90^{\circ }<R<(90^{\circ }-L)~.}"></span> </p><p>Or, if preferring to use inclination angle, <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ I\ ,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>I</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ I\ ,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/23f595cca40182e74e09026baf0badfd43c606d7" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:2.98ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ I\ ,}"></span> rather than the reclination, <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ R\ ,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>R</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ R\ ,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/578cb7e998204bbeee32857162faa38be93db5bc" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:3.572ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ R\ ,}"></span> where <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ I=(90^{\circ }+R)\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>I</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <msup> <mn>90</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>+</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ I=(90^{\circ }+R)\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/34f9d7917e8a9cf7d2d2ae0412e87f1131a371a7" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:15.224ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ I=(90^{\circ }+R)\ }"></span> : </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{\text{RD}}={\frac {\ \sin I\ \cos L+\cos I\ \sin L\ \cos D+s_{o}\cos I\ \sin D\ \cot(15^{\circ }\times t)\ }{\ \cos D\ \cot(15^{\circ }\times t\ )-s_{o}\sin D\ \sin L\ }}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <msub> <mi>H</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>RD</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>I</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>I</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mo>+</mo> <msub> <mi>s</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>o</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>I</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cot</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> </mrow> <mrow> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cot</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <msup> <mn>15</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>×</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mo>−</mo> <msub> <mi>s</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>o</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{\text{RD}}={\frac {\ \sin I\ \cos L+\cos I\ \sin L\ \cos D+s_{o}\cos I\ \sin D\ \cot(15^{\circ }\times t)\ }{\ \cos D\ \cot(15^{\circ }\times t\ )-s_{o}\sin D\ \sin L\ }}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/341ca3f781341d4486485214af1912b330b3fb94" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -2.671ex; width:74.652ex; height:6.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ \tan H_{\text{RD}}={\frac {\ \sin I\ \cos L+\cos I\ \sin L\ \cos D+s_{o}\cos I\ \sin D\ \cot(15^{\circ }\times t)\ }{\ \cos D\ \cot(15^{\circ }\times t\ )-s_{o}\sin D\ \sin L\ }}\ }"></span></dd></dl> <p>within the parameter ranges : <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ D<D_{c}~~}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>D</mi> <mo><</mo> <msub> <mi>D</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>c</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ D<D_{c}~~}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/8d90122d72e94c8e6672a0a56642b132fc03930d" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:9.633ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ D<D_{c}~~}"></span> and <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle ~~0^{\circ }<I<(180^{\circ }-L)~.}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mtext> </mtext> <msup> <mn>0</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo><</mo> <mi>I</mi> <mo><</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <msup> <mn>180</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mo>−</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>.</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle ~~0^{\circ }<I<(180^{\circ }-L)~.}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/97bc02a772eb6408aa4d64de33adf4a882ed66a8" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:22.748ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle ~~0^{\circ }<I<(180^{\circ }-L)~.}"></span> </p><p>Here <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ L\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ L\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/395485b3365351e0cee16ad4ee5e43ea7556cf0e" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.744ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ L\ }"></span> is the sundial's geographical latitude; <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ s_{o}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>s</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>o</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ s_{o}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6415f5bcf878fe9ed995d5b5bb22e9bc15c5898c" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:3.281ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ s_{o}\ }"></span> is the orientation switch integer; <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">t</span> is the time in hours before or after noon; and <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ R\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>R</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ R\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/bb46873223ab58ba83c959c590be4a27cf67bd6b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.925ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ R\ }"></span> and <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ D\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ D\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/7c9cb22fd491fa1da693745897760753c3f46116" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:3.086ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ D\ }"></span> are the angles of reclination and declination, respectively. Note that <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ R\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>R</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ R\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/bb46873223ab58ba83c959c590be4a27cf67bd6b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.925ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ R\ }"></span> is measured with reference to the vertical. It is positive when the dial leans back towards the horizon behind the dial and negative when the dial leans forward to the horizon on the Sun's side. Declination angle <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ D\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ D\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/7c9cb22fd491fa1da693745897760753c3f46116" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:3.086ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ D\ }"></span> is defined as positive when moving east of true south. Dials facing fully or partly south have <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ s_{o}=+1\ ,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>s</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>o</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mo>+</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ s_{o}=+1\ ,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/4b3156995d8eb7449c8140cd669184c95d1ab917" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:9.997ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ s_{o}=+1\ ,}"></span> while those partly or fully north-facing have an <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ s_{o}=-1~.}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>s</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>o</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mo>−</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>.</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ s_{o}=-1~.}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6bf28ade4abc409648d5a08aabbba99a85366fcf" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:9.997ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ s_{o}=-1~.}"></span> Since the above expression gives the hour angle as an arctangent function, due consideration must be given to which quadrant of the sundial each hour belongs to before assigning the correct hour angle. </p><p>Unlike the simpler vertical declining sundial, this type of dial does not always show hour angles on its sunside face for all declinations between east and west. When a northern hemisphere partly south-facing dial reclines back (i.e. away from the Sun) from the vertical, the gnomon will become co-planar with the dial plate at declinations less than due east or due west. Likewise for southern hemisphere dials that are partly north-facing. Were these dials reclining forward, the range of declination would actually exceed due east and due west. In a similar way, northern hemisphere dials that are partly north-facing and southern hemisphere dials that are south-facing, and which lean forward toward their upward pointing gnomons, will have a similar restriction on the range of declination that is possible for a given reclination value. The critical declination <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ D_{c}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <msub> <mi>D</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>c</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ D_{c}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/ec2da1bcd7dfa891c81fb8cf8e2b2209eb3b8554" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.03ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ D_{c}\ }"></span> is a geometrical constraint which depends on the value of both the dial's reclination and its latitude : </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ \cos D_{c}=\tan R\ \tan L=-\tan L\ \cot I\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <msub> <mi>D</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>c</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mo>−</mo> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cot</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>I</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ \cos D_{c}=\tan R\ \tan L=-\tan L\ \cot I\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/9027d28141d7f897a3cd8697c866fde95696ebe2" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:39.071ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ \cos D_{c}=\tan R\ \tan L=-\tan L\ \cot I\ }"></span></dd></dl> <p>As with the vertical declined dial, the gnomon's substyle is not aligned with the noon hour-line. The general formula for the angle <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ B\ ,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>B</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ B\ ,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f06794c6660046586160f0d3471dd269400f657b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:3.572ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ B\ ,}"></span> between the substyle and the noon-line is given by : </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ \tan B={\frac {\sin D}{\sin R\ \cos D+\cos R\ \tan L}}={\frac {\sin D}{\ \cos I\ \cos D-\sin I\ \tan L\ }}\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>B</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> </mrow> <mrow> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> </mrow> <mrow> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>I</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mo>−</mo> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>I</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ \tan B={\frac {\sin D}{\sin R\ \cos D+\cos R\ \tan L}}={\frac {\sin D}{\ \cos I\ \cos D-\sin I\ \tan L\ }}\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/fabaa3b796db0f357551f612f86f63d5298ee20e" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -2.005ex; width:66.886ex; height:5.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ \tan B={\frac {\sin D}{\sin R\ \cos D+\cos R\ \tan L}}={\frac {\sin D}{\ \cos I\ \cos D-\sin I\ \tan L\ }}\ }"></span></dd></dl> <p>The angle <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ G\ ,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>G</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ G\ ,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/e97b8a0015758469fb3a014a270b9915af1db360" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:3.635ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ G\ ,}"></span> between the style and the plate is given by : </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ \sin G=\cos L\ \cos D\ \cos R-\sin L\ \sin R=-\cos L\ \cos D\ \sin I+\sin L\ \cos I\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>G</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mo>−</mo> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mo>−</mo> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>I</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>I</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ \sin G=\cos L\ \cos D\ \cos R-\sin L\ \sin R=-\cos L\ \cos D\ \sin I+\sin L\ \cos I\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/b21c1763dd443c8ff49e04b73f40d8f8862bcc4f" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.505ex; width:76.509ex; height:2.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ \sin G=\cos L\ \cos D\ \cos R-\sin L\ \sin R=-\cos L\ \cos D\ \sin I+\sin L\ \cos I\ }"></span></dd></dl> <p>Note that for <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ G=0^{\circ }\ ,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>G</mi> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>0</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∘</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ G=0^{\circ }\ ,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/984269917111026260cdee37e6296cbabc81dd41" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:8.95ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ G=0^{\circ }\ ,}"></span> i.e. when the gnomon is coplanar with the dial plate, we have : </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ \cos D=\tan L\ \tan R=-\tan L\ \cot I\ }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cos</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mo>−</mo> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>L</mi> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>cot</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>I</mi> <mtext> </mtext> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ \cos D=\tan L\ \tan R=-\tan L\ \cot I\ }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/040ab5e8b3d01e0cc8250f12a0f3e11d80e6a7ff" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.505ex; width:38.127ex; height:2.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ \cos D=\tan L\ \tan R=-\tan L\ \cot I\ }"></span></dd></dl> <p>i.e. when <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ D=D_{c}\ ,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>D</mi> <mo>=</mo> <msub> <mi>D</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>c</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mtext> </mtext> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ D=D_{c}\ ,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/b73d1c8573d0eb826760ab1d0ed98e2474e882bd" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:9.699ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ D=D_{c}\ ,}"></span> the critical declination value.<sup id="cite_ref-Fennewick_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fennewick-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Empirical_method">Empirical method</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Empirical method"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Because of the complexity of the above calculations, using them for the practical purpose of designing a dial of this type is difficult and prone to error. It has been suggested that it is better to locate the hour lines empirically, marking the positions of the shadow of a style on a real sundial at hourly intervals as shown by a clock and adding/deducting that day's equation of time adjustment.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> See <a href="#Empirical_hour-line_marking">Empirical hour-line marking</a>, above. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spherical_sundials">Spherical sundials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Spherical sundials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zw_stelling.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Zw_stelling.jpg/170px-Zw_stelling.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="236" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Zw_stelling.jpg/255px-Zw_stelling.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Zw_stelling.jpg/340px-Zw_stelling.jpg 2x" data-file-width="534" data-file-height="741" /></a><figcaption>Equatorial bow sundial in <a href="/wiki/Hasselt" title="Hasselt">Hasselt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flanders</a> in <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sundial&params=50_55_47_N_5_20_31_E_type:landmark&title=Hasselt+equatorial+bow+sundial"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">50°55′47″N</span> <span class="longitude">5°20′31″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">50.92972°N 5.34194°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">50.92972; 5.34194</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Hasselt equatorial bow sundial</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span>. The rays pass through the narrow slot, forming a uniformly rotating sheet of light that falls on the circular bow. The hour-lines are equally spaced; in this image, the local solar time is roughly 15:00 hours <span class="nowrap">( 3 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">P.M.</span></span> ).</span> On September 10, a small ball, welded into the slot casts a shadow on centre of the hour band.</figcaption></figure> <p>The surface receiving the shadow need not be a plane, but can have any shape, provided that the sundial maker is willing to mark the hour-lines. If the style is aligned with the Earth's rotational axis, a spherical shape is convenient since the hour-lines are equally spaced, as they are on the equatorial dial shown here; the sundial is <i>equiangular</i>. This is the principle behind the armillary sphere and the equatorial bow sundial.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, some equiangular sundials – such as the Lambert dial described below – are based on other principles. </p><p>In the <i>equatorial bow sundial</i>, the gnomon is a bar, slot or stretched wire parallel to the celestial axis. The face is a semicircle, corresponding to the equator of the sphere, with markings on the inner surface. This pattern, built a couple of meters wide out of temperature-invariant steel <a href="/wiki/Invar" title="Invar">invar</a>, was used to keep the trains running on time in France before World War I.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERohr199617_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERohr199617-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the most precise sundials ever made are two equatorial bows constructed of <a href="/wiki/Marble" title="Marble">marble</a> found in <a href="/wiki/Yantra_mandir_(Jaipur)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yantra mandir (Jaipur)">Yantra mandir</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This collection of sundials and other astronomical instruments was built by Maharaja <a href="/wiki/Jai_Singh_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Jai Singh II">Jai Singh II</a> at his then-new capital of <a href="/wiki/Jaipur" title="Jaipur">Jaipur</a>, India between 1727 and 1733. The larger equatorial bow is called the <i>Samrat Yantra</i> (The Supreme Instrument); standing at 27 meters, its shadow moves visibly at 1 mm per second, or roughly a hand's breadth (6 cm) every minute. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cylindrical,_conical,_and_other_non-planar_sundials"><span id="Cylindrical.2C_conical.2C_and_other_non-planar_sundials"></span>Cylindrical, conical, and other non-planar sundials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Cylindrical, conical, and other non-planar sundials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Precision_sundial_in_B%C3%BCtgenbach-Belgium.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Precision_sundial_in_B%C3%BCtgenbach-Belgium.jpg/170px-Precision_sundial_in_B%C3%BCtgenbach-Belgium.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Precision_sundial_in_B%C3%BCtgenbach-Belgium.jpg/255px-Precision_sundial_in_B%C3%BCtgenbach-Belgium.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Precision_sundial_in_B%C3%BCtgenbach-Belgium.jpg/340px-Precision_sundial_in_B%C3%BCtgenbach-Belgium.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Precision sundial in Bütgenbach, Belgium. (Precision<span class="nowrap"> </span>=<span class="nowrap"> </span>±30<span class="nowrap"> </span>seconds) <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sundial&params=50.4231_N_6.2017_E_type:landmark&title=Belgium"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">50°25′23″N</span> <span class="longitude">6°12′06″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">50.4231°N 6.2017°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">50.4231; 6.2017</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Belgium</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></figcaption></figure> <p>Other non-planar surfaces may be used to receive the shadow of the gnomon. </p><p>As an elegant alternative, the style (which could be created by a hole or slit in the circumference) may be located on the circumference of a cylinder or sphere, rather than at its central axis of symmetry. </p><p>In that case, the hour lines are again spaced equally, but at <i>twice</i> the usual angle, due to the geometrical <a href="/wiki/Inscribed_angle" title="Inscribed angle">inscribed angle</a> theorem. This is the basis of some modern sundials, but it was also used in ancient times;<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In another variation of the polar-axis-aligned cylindrical, a cylindrical dial could be rendered as a helical ribbon-like surface, with a thin gnomon located either along its center or at its periphery. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Movable-gnomon_sundials">Movable-gnomon sundials</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Movable-gnomon sundials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sundials can be designed with a gnomon that is placed in a different position each day throughout the year. In other words, the position of the gnomon relative to the centre of the hour lines varies. The gnomon need not be aligned with the celestial poles and may even be perfectly vertical (the analemmatic dial). These dials, when combined with fixed-gnomon sundials, allow the user to determine <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a> with no other aid; the two sundials are correctly aligned if and only if they both show the same time. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Universal_equinoctial_ring_dial">Universal equinoctial ring dial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Universal equinoctial ring dial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_rings" title="Astronomical rings">Astronomical rings</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ringsundial_open.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Ringsundial_open.jpg/170px-Ringsundial_open.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Ringsundial_open.jpg/255px-Ringsundial_open.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Ringsundial_open.jpg/340px-Ringsundial_open.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="825" /></a><figcaption>Universal ring dial. The dial is suspended from the cord shown in the upper left; the suspension point on the vertical meridian ring can be changed to match the local latitude. The center bar is twisted until a sunray passes through the small hole and falls on the horizontal equatorial ring. See <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ringsundial_open.jpg" class="extiw" title="commons:File:Ringsundial open.jpg">Commons annotations</a> for labels.</figcaption></figure> <p>A <i>universal equinoctial ring dial</i> (sometimes called a <i>ring dial</i> for brevity, although the term is ambiguous), is a portable version of an armillary sundial,<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or was inspired by the <a href="/wiki/Mariner%27s_astrolabe" title="Mariner's astrolabe">mariner's astrolabe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-swanick_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swanick-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was likely invented by <a href="/wiki/William_Oughtred" title="William Oughtred">William Oughtred</a> around 1600 and became common throughout Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In its simplest form, the style is a thin slit that allows the Sun's rays to fall on the hour-lines of an equatorial ring. As usual, the style is aligned with the Earth's axis; to do this, the user may orient the dial towards <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a> and suspend the ring dial vertically from the appropriate point on the meridian ring. Such dials may be made self-aligning with the addition of a more complicated central bar, instead of a simple slit-style. These bars are sometimes an addition to a set of <a href="/wiki/Gemma%27s_rings" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemma's rings">Gemma's rings</a>. This bar could pivot about its end points and held a perforated slider that was positioned to the month and day according to a scale scribed on the bar. The time was determined by rotating the bar towards the Sun so that the light shining through the hole fell on the equatorial ring. This forced the user to rotate the instrument, which had the effect of aligning the instrument's vertical ring with the meridian. </p><p>When not in use, the equatorial and meridian rings can be folded together into a small disk. </p><p>In 1610, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Wright_(mathematician)" title="Edward Wright (mathematician)">Edward Wright</a> created the <b>sea ring</b>, which mounted a universal ring dial over a magnetic compass. This permitted mariners to determine the time and <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_variation" class="mw-redirect" title="Magnetic variation">magnetic variation</a> in a single step.<sup id="cite_ref-may_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-may-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Analemmatic_sundials">Analemmatic sundials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Analemmatic sundials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Analemmatic_sundial" title="Analemmatic sundial">Analemmatic sundial</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zonnewijzerherkenrode.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Zonnewijzerherkenrode.jpg/170px-Zonnewijzerherkenrode.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Zonnewijzerherkenrode.jpg/255px-Zonnewijzerherkenrode.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Zonnewijzerherkenrode.jpg/340px-Zonnewijzerherkenrode.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4016" data-file-height="3276" /></a><figcaption>Analemmatic sundial on a <a href="/wiki/Meridian_(geography)" title="Meridian (geography)">meridian</a> line in the garden of the abbey of Herkenrode in <a href="/wiki/Hasselt" title="Hasselt">Hasselt</a> (<a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flanders</a> in <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Analemmatic sundials</b> are a type of horizontal sundial that has a vertical gnomon and hour markers positioned in an elliptical pattern. There are no hour lines on the dial and the time of day is read on the ellipse. The gnomon is not fixed and must change position daily to accurately indicate time of day. Analemmatic sundials are sometimes designed with a human as the gnomon. Human gnomon analemmatic sundials are not practical at lower latitudes where a human shadow is quite short during the summer months. A 66 inch tall person casts a 4 inch shadow at 27° latitude on the summer solstice.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foster-Lambert_dials">Foster-Lambert dials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Foster-Lambert dials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Foster-Lambert dial is another movable-gnomon sundial.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In contrast to the elliptical analemmatic dial, the Lambert dial is circular with evenly spaced hour lines, making it an <i>equiangular sundial</i>, similar to the equatorial, spherical, cylindrical and conical dials described above. The gnomon of a Foster-Lambert dial is neither vertical nor aligned with the Earth's rotational axis; rather, it is tilted northwards by an angle α = 45° - (Φ/2), where Φ is the geographical <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a>. Thus, a Foster-Lambert dial located at latitude 40° would have a gnomon tilted away from vertical by 25° in a northerly direction. To read the correct time, the gnomon must also be moved northwards by a distance </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle Y=R\tan \alpha \tan \delta \,}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>Y</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mi>R</mi> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mi>tan</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>δ</mi> <mspace width="thinmathspace" /> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle Y=R\tan \alpha \tan \delta \,}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/89aae09ef0b1de0b94cec9f857de8689a2ffba29" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:17.827ex; height:2.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle Y=R\tan \alpha \tan \delta \,}"></span></dd></dl> <p>where <i>R</i> is the radius of the Foster-Lambert dial and δ again indicates the Sun's declination for that time of year. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Altitude-based_sundials">Altitude-based sundials</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Altitude-based sundials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ottoman_Sundial_at_the_Debbane_Palace_museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Ottoman_Sundial_at_the_Debbane_Palace_museum.jpg/220px-Ottoman_Sundial_at_the_Debbane_Palace_museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Ottoman_Sundial_at_the_Debbane_Palace_museum.jpg/330px-Ottoman_Sundial_at_the_Debbane_Palace_museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Ottoman_Sundial_at_the_Debbane_Palace_museum.jpg/440px-Ottoman_Sundial_at_the_Debbane_Palace_museum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2524" data-file-height="2734" /></a><figcaption>Ottoman-style sundial with folded gnomon and a compass. <a href="/wiki/Debbane_Palace" title="Debbane Palace">Debbane Palace</a> museum, Lebanon.</figcaption></figure> <p>Altitude dials measure the height of the Sun in the sky, rather than directly measuring its hour-angle about the Earth's axis. They are not oriented towards <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a>, but rather towards the Sun and generally held vertically. The Sun's elevation is indicated by the position of a nodus, either the shadow-tip of a gnomon, or a spot of light. </p><p>In altitude dials, the time is read from where the nodus falls on a set of hour-curves that vary with the time of year. Many such altitude-dials' construction is calculation-intensive, as also the case with many azimuth dials. But the capuchin dials (described below) are constructed and used graphically. </p><p>Altitude dials' disadvantages: </p><p>Since the Sun's altitude is the same at times equally spaced about noon (e.g., 9am and 3pm), the user had to know whether it was morning or afternoon. At, say, 3:00 pm, that is not a problem. But when the dial indicates a time 15 minutes from noon, the user likely will not have a way of distinguishing 11:45 from 12:15. </p><p>Additionally, altitude dials are less accurate near noon, because the sun's altitude is not changing rapidly then. </p><p>Many of these dials are portable and simple to use. As is often the case with other sundials, many altitude dials are designed for only one latitude. But the capuchin dial (described below) has a version that's adjustable for latitude.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="#CITEREFMayallMayall1994">Mayall & Mayall (1994)</a>, p. 169 describe the Universal Capuchin sundial. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Human_shadows">Human shadows</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Human shadows"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The length of a human shadow (or of any vertical object) can be used to measure the sun's elevation and, thence, the time.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Venerable_Bede" class="mw-redirect" title="Venerable Bede">Venerable Bede</a> gave a table for estimating the time from the length of one's shadow in feet, on the assumption that a monk's height is six times the length of his foot. Such shadow lengths will vary with the geographical <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a> and with the time of year. For example, the shadow length at noon is short in summer months, and long in winter months. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Chaucer" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaucer">Chaucer</a> evokes this method a few times in his <i><a href="/wiki/Canterbury_Tales" class="mw-redirect" title="Canterbury Tales">Canterbury Tales</a></i>, as in his <i>Parson's Tale</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An equivalent type of sundial using a vertical rod of fixed length is known as a <i><a href="/wiki/Backstaff" title="Backstaff">backstaff dial</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shepherd's_dial_–_timesticks"><span id="Shepherd.27s_dial_.E2.80.93_timesticks"></span>Shepherd's dial – timesticks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Shepherd's dial – timesticks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Shepherd%27s_dial" title="Shepherd's dial">Shepherd's dial</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tibetan_Timestick.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Tibetan_Timestick.jpg/220px-Tibetan_Timestick.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Tibetan_Timestick.jpg/330px-Tibetan_Timestick.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Tibetan_Timestick.jpg/440px-Tibetan_Timestick.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>19th-century Tibetan shepherd's timestick</figcaption></figure> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Shepherd%27s_dial" title="Shepherd's dial">shepherd's dial</a> – also known as a <i>shepherd's column dial</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-story_of_time_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-story_of_time-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-beginnings_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beginnings-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>pillar dial</i>, <i>cylinder dial</i> or <i>chilindre</i> – is a portable cylindrical sundial with a knife-like gnomon that juts out perpendicularly.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is normally dangled from a rope or string so the cylinder is vertical. The gnomon can be twisted to be above a month or day indication on the face of the cylinder. This corrects the sundial for the equation of time. The entire sundial is then twisted on its string so that the gnomon aims toward the Sun, while the cylinder remains vertical. The tip of the shadow indicates the time on the cylinder. The hour curves inscribed on the cylinder permit one to read the time. Shepherd's dials are sometimes hollow, so that the gnomon can fold within when not in use. </p><p>The shepherd's dial is evoked in <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_3" title="Henry VI, Part 3">Henry VI, Part 3</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> among other works of literature.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The cylindrical shepherd's dial can be unrolled into a flat plate. In one simple version,<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the front and back of the plate each have three columns, corresponding to pairs of months with roughly the same solar declination (June:July, May:August, April:September, March:October, February:November, and January:December). The top of each column has a hole for inserting the shadow-casting gnomon, a peg. Often only two times are marked on the column below, one for noon and the other for mid-morning / mid-afternoon. </p><p>Timesticks, <i>clock spear</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-story_of_time_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-story_of_time-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <i>shepherds' time stick</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-story_of_time_65-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-story_of_time-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> are based on the same principles as dials.<sup id="cite_ref-story_of_time_65-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-story_of_time-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-beginnings_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beginnings-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The time stick is carved with eight vertical time scales for a different period of the year, each bearing a time scale calculated according to the relative amount of daylight during the different months of the year. Any reading depends not only on the time of day but also on the latitude and time of year.<sup id="cite_ref-beginnings_66-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beginnings-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A peg gnomon is inserted at the top in the appropriate hole or face for the season of the year, and turned to the Sun so that the shadow falls directly down the scale. Its end displays the time.<sup id="cite_ref-story_of_time_65-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-story_of_time-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ring_dials">Ring dials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Ring dials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a ring dial (also known as an <i>Aquitaine</i> or a <i>perforated ring dial</i>), the ring is hung vertically and oriented sideways towards the sun.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A beam of light passes through a small hole in the ring and falls on hour-curves that are inscribed on the inside of the ring. To adjust for the equation of time, the hole is usually on a loose ring within the ring so that the hole can be adjusted to reflect the current month. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Card_dials_(Capuchin_dials)"><span id="Card_dials_.28Capuchin_dials.29"></span>Card dials (Capuchin dials)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Card dials (Capuchin dials)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Card dials are another form of altitude dial.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A card is aligned edge-on with the sun and tilted so that a ray of light passes through an aperture onto a specified spot, thus determining the sun's altitude. A weighted string hangs vertically downwards from a hole in the card, and carries a bead or knot. The position of the bead on the hour-lines of the card gives the time. In more sophisticated versions such as the Capuchin dial, there is only one set of hour-lines, i.e., the hour lines do not vary with the seasons. Instead, the position of the hole from which the weighted string hangs is varied according to the season. </p><p>The Capuchin sundials are constructed and used graphically, as opposed the direct hour-angle measurements of horizontal or equatorial dials; or the calculated hour angle lines of some altitude and azimuth dials. </p><p>In addition to the ordinary Capuchin dial, there is a universal Capuchin dial, adjustable for latitude. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Navicula">Navicula</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Navicula"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Navicula_de_Venetiis-MHS_2139-P7220157-gradient.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Navicula_de_Venetiis-MHS_2139-P7220157-gradient.jpg/220px-Navicula_de_Venetiis-MHS_2139-P7220157-gradient.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Navicula_de_Venetiis-MHS_2139-P7220157-gradient.jpg/330px-Navicula_de_Venetiis-MHS_2139-P7220157-gradient.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Navicula_de_Venetiis-MHS_2139-P7220157-gradient.jpg/440px-Navicula_de_Venetiis-MHS_2139-P7220157-gradient.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3500" data-file-height="3500" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Navicula_de_Venetiis" title="Navicula de Venetiis">Navicula de Venetiis</a> on display at <a href="/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_d%27histoire_des_sciences_de_la_Ville_de_Gen%C3%A8ve" title="Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève">Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Navicula_de_Venetiis" title="Navicula de Venetiis">navicula de Venetiis</a> or "little ship of Venice" was an altitude dial used to tell time and which was shaped like a little ship. The cursor (with a plumb line attached) was slid up / down the mast to the correct latitude. The user then sighted the Sun through the pair of sighting holes at either end of the "ship's deck". The plumb line then marked what hour of the day it was.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nodus-based_sundials">Nodus-based sundials</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Nodus-based sundials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:057Cracow.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/057Cracow.JPG/170px-057Cracow.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="256" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/057Cracow.JPG/255px-057Cracow.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/057Cracow.JPG/340px-057Cracow.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1360" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption> Kraków. <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sundial&params=50.0614_N_19.94_E_type:landmark&title=Krak%C3%B3w+sundial"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">50°03′41″N</span> <span class="longitude">19°56′24″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">50.0614°N 19.9400°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">50.0614; 19.9400</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Kraków sundial</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> The shadow of the cross-shaped nodus moves along a <a href="/wiki/Hyperbola" title="Hyperbola">hyperbola</a> which shows the time of the year, indicated here by the zodiac figures. It is 1:50 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">P.M.</span></span> on 16 July, 25 days after the <a href="/wiki/Summer_solstice" title="Summer solstice">summer solstice</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Another type of sundial follows the motion of a single point of light or shadow, which may be called the <i>nodus</i>. For example, the sundial may follow the sharp tip of a gnomon's shadow, e.g., the shadow-tip of a vertical <a href="/wiki/Obelisk" title="Obelisk">obelisk</a> (e.g., the <i><a href="/wiki/Solarium_Augusti" title="Solarium Augusti">Solarium Augusti</a></i>) or the tip of the horizontal marker in a shepherd's dial. Alternatively, sunlight may be allowed to pass through a small hole or reflected from a small (e.g., coin-sized) circular mirror, forming a small spot of light whose position may be followed. In such cases, the rays of light trace out a <a href="/wiki/Cone_(geometry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cone (geometry)">cone</a> over the course of a day; when the rays fall on a surface, the path followed is the intersection of the cone with that surface. Most commonly, the receiving surface is a geometrical <a href="/wiki/Plane_(geometry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Plane (geometry)">plane</a>, so that the path of the shadow-tip or light-spot (called <i>declination line</i>) traces out a <a href="/wiki/Conic_section" title="Conic section">conic section</a> such as a <a href="/wiki/Hyperbola" title="Hyperbola">hyperbola</a> or an <a href="/wiki/Ellipse" title="Ellipse">ellipse</a>. The collection of hyperbolae was called a <i>pelekonon</i> (axe) by the Greeks, because it resembles a double-bladed ax, narrow in the center (near the noonline) and flaring out at the ends (early morning and late evening hours). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sundial_solstice_declination_lines_for_different_latitudes_-_slow.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Sundial_solstice_declination_lines_for_different_latitudes_-_slow.gif/220px-Sundial_solstice_declination_lines_for_different_latitudes_-_slow.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Sundial_solstice_declination_lines_for_different_latitudes_-_slow.gif/330px-Sundial_solstice_declination_lines_for_different_latitudes_-_slow.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Sundial_solstice_declination_lines_for_different_latitudes_-_slow.gif 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>Declination lines at solstices and equinox for sundials, located at different latitudes</figcaption></figure> <p>There is a simple verification of hyperbolic declination lines on a sundial: the distance from the origin to the equinox line should be equal to <a href="/wiki/Harmonic_mean" title="Harmonic mean">harmonic mean</a> of distances from the origin to summer and winter solstice lines.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nodus-based sundials may use a small hole or mirror to isolate a single ray of light; the former are sometimes called <i>aperture dials</i>. The oldest example is perhaps the antiborean sundial (<i>antiboreum</i>), a spherical nodus-based sundial that faces <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a>; a ray of sunlight enters from the south through a small hole located at the sphere's pole and falls on the hour and date lines inscribed within the sphere, which resemble lines of longitude and latitude, respectively, on a globe.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reflection_sundials">Reflection sundials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Reflection sundials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Newton" title="Isaac Newton">Isaac Newton</a> developed a convenient and inexpensive sundial, in which a small mirror is placed on the sill of a south-facing window.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mirror acts like a nodus, casting a single spot of light on the ceiling. Depending on the geographical <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a> and time of year, the light-spot follows a conic section, such as the hyperbolae of the pelikonon. If the mirror is parallel to the Earth's equator, and the ceiling is horizontal, then the resulting angles are those of a conventional horizontal sundial. Using the ceiling as a sundial surface exploits unused space, and the dial may be large enough to be very accurate. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Multiple_dials">Multiple dials</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Multiple dials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sundials are sometimes combined into multiple dials. If two or more dials that operate on different principles — such as an <a href="/wiki/Analemmatic_sundial" title="Analemmatic sundial">analemmatic dial</a> and a <a href="#Horizontal_sundials">horizontal</a> or <a href="#Vertical_sundials">vertical</a> dial — are combined, the resulting multiple dial becomes self-aligning, most of the time. Both dials need to output both time and declination. In other words, the direction of <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">true north</a> need not be determined; the dials are oriented correctly when they read the same time and declination. However, the most common forms combine dials are based on the same principle and the analemmatic does not normally output the declination of the sun, thus are not self-aligning.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Diptych_(tablet)_sundial"><span id="Diptych_.28tablet.29_sundial"></span>Diptych (tablet) sundial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Diptych (tablet) sundial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sundial_in_the_form_of_a_mandolin_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15050.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Sundial_in_the_form_of_a_mandolin_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15050.png/170px-Sundial_in_the_form_of_a_mandolin_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15050.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Sundial_in_the_form_of_a_mandolin_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15050.png/255px-Sundial_in_the_form_of_a_mandolin_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15050.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Sundial_in_the_form_of_a_mandolin_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15050.png/340px-Sundial_in_the_form_of_a_mandolin_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15050.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="948" /></a><figcaption>Diptych sundial in the form of a <a href="/wiki/Lute" title="Lute">lute</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1612</span>. The gnomons-style is a string stretched between a horizontal and vertical face. This sundial also has a small nodus (a bead on the string) that tells time on the hyperbolic <i>pelikinon</i>, just above the date on the vertical face.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Diptych" title="Diptych">diptych</a></b> consisted of two small flat faces, joined by a hinge.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diptychs usually folded into little flat boxes suitable for a pocket. The gnomon was a string between the two faces. When the string was tight, the two faces formed both a vertical and horizontal sundial. These were made of white ivory, inlaid with black lacquer markings. The gnomons were black braided silk, linen or hemp string. With a knot or bead on the string as a nodus, and the correct markings, a diptych (really any sundial large enough) can keep a calendar well-enough to plant crops. A common error describes the diptych dial as self-aligning. This is not correct for diptych dials consisting of a horizontal and vertical dial using a string gnomon between faces, no matter the orientation of the dial faces. Since the string gnomon is continuous, the shadows must meet at the hinge; hence, <i>any</i> orientation of the dial will show the same time on both dials.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Multiface_dials">Multiface dials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Multiface dials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A common type of multiple dial has sundials on every face of a <a href="/wiki/Platonic_solid" title="Platonic solid">Platonic solid</a> (regular polyhedron), usually a <a href="/wiki/Cube" title="Cube">cube</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Extremely ornate sundials can be composed in this way, by applying a sundial to every surface of a solid object. </p><p>In some cases, the sundials are formed as hollows in a solid object, e.g., a cylindrical hollow aligned with the Earth's rotational axis (in which the edges play the role of styles) or a spherical hollow in the ancient tradition of the <i>hemisphaerium</i> or the <i>antiboreum</i>. (See the History section above.) In some cases, these multiface dials are small enough to sit on a desk, whereas in others, they are large stone monuments. </p><p>A Polyhedral's dial faces can be designed to give the time for different time-zones simultaneously. Examples include the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_sundial" title="Scottish sundial">Scottish sundial</a> of the 17th and 18th centuries, which was often an extremely complex shape of polyhedral, and even convex faces. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prismatic_dials">Prismatic dials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Prismatic dials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Prismatic dials are a special case of polar dials, in which the sharp edges of a <a href="/wiki/Prism_(geometry)" title="Prism (geometry)">prism</a> of a concave <a href="/wiki/Polygon" title="Polygon">polygon</a> serve as the styles and the sides of the prism receive the shadow.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Examples include a three-dimensional cross or star of David on gravestones. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Unusual_sundials">Unusual sundials</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Unusual sundials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Benoy_dial">Benoy dial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Benoy dial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Benoy_sun_clock.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Benoy_sun_clock.jpg/170px-Benoy_sun_clock.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Benoy_sun_clock.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="228" data-file-height="259" /></a><figcaption>Benoy Sun Clock showing 6:00 p.m.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Benoy dial was invented by Walter Gordon Benoy of <a href="/wiki/Collingham,_Nottinghamshire" title="Collingham, Nottinghamshire">Collingham, Nottinghamshire</a>, England. Whereas a gnomon casts a sheet of shadow, his invention creates an equivalent sheet of light by allowing the Sun's rays through a thin slit, reflecting them from a long, slim mirror (usually half-cylindrical), or focusing them through a <a href="/wiki/Cylindrical_lens" title="Cylindrical lens">cylindrical lens</a>. Examples of Benoy dials can be found in the United Kingdom at:<sup id="cite_ref-BSSRegister_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BSSRegister-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Carnfunnock Country Park, <a href="/wiki/Antrim,_County_Antrim" title="Antrim, County Antrim">Antrim</a> <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></li> <li>Upton Hall, <a href="/wiki/British_Horological_Institute" title="British Horological Institute">British Horological Institute</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newark-on-Trent" title="Newark-on-Trent">Newark-on-Trent</a>, Nottinghamshire</li> <li>Within the collections of St Edmundsbury Heritage Service, <a href="/wiki/Bury_St_Edmunds" title="Bury St Edmunds">Bury St Edmunds</a><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longleat" title="Longleat">Longleat</a>, Wiltshire</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jodrell_Bank" class="mw-redirect" title="Jodrell Bank">Jodrell Bank</a> Science Centre</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Botanical_Gardens_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Birmingham Botanical Gardens (United Kingdom)">Birmingham Botanical Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_Museum,_London" title="Science Museum, London">Science Museum, London</a> (inventory number 1975-318)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bifilar_sundial">Bifilar sundial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Bifilar sundial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stainless_steel_bifilar_sundial_(dial).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Stainless_steel_bifilar_sundial_%28dial%29.jpg/220px-Stainless_steel_bifilar_sundial_%28dial%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Stainless_steel_bifilar_sundial_%28dial%29.jpg/330px-Stainless_steel_bifilar_sundial_%28dial%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Stainless_steel_bifilar_sundial_%28dial%29.jpg/440px-Stainless_steel_bifilar_sundial_%28dial%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="1960" /></a><figcaption>Stainless steel bifilar sundial in Italy</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bifilar_sundial" title="Bifilar sundial">Bifilar sundial</a></div> <p>Invented by the German mathematician Hugo Michnik in 1922, the <a href="/wiki/Bifilar_sundial" title="Bifilar sundial">bifilar sundial</a> has two non-intersecting threads parallel to the dial. Usually the second thread is <a href="/wiki/Orthogonal" class="mw-redirect" title="Orthogonal">orthogonal</a> to the first.<sup id="cite_ref-1922AN....217...81M_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1922AN....217...81M-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The intersection of the two threads' shadows gives the local solar time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Digital_sundial">Digital sundial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Digital sundial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Digital_sundial" title="Digital sundial">Digital sundial</a></div> <p>A digital sundial indicates the current time with numerals formed by the sunlight striking it. Sundials of this type are installed in the <a href="/wiki/Deutsches_Museum" title="Deutsches Museum">Deutsches Museum</a> in Munich and in the Sundial Park in <a href="/wiki/Genk" title="Genk">Genk</a> (Belgium), and a small version is available commercially. There is a patent for this type of sundial.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Globe_dial">Globe dial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Globe dial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The globe dial is a sphere aligned with the Earth's rotational axis, and equipped with a spherical vane.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similar to sundials with a fixed axial style, a globe dial determines the time from the Sun's azimuthal angle in its apparent rotation about the earth. This angle can be determined by rotating the vane to give the smallest shadow. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noon_marks">Noon marks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Noon marks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Noon_mark" title="Noon mark">Noon mark</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Greenwich_Royal_Observatory_Noon_Mark.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Greenwich_Royal_Observatory_Noon_Mark.jpg/170px-Greenwich_Royal_Observatory_Noon_Mark.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="501" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Greenwich_Royal_Observatory_Noon_Mark.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="197" data-file-height="580" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Noon_mark" title="Noon mark">Noon mark</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Greenwich_Royal_Observatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Greenwich Royal Observatory">Greenwich Royal Observatory</a>. The analemma is the narrow figure-8 shape, which plots the <a href="/wiki/Equation_of_time" title="Equation of time">equation of time</a> (in degrees, not time, 1°=4 minutes) versus the altitude of the Sun at noon at the sundial's location. The altitude is measured vertically, the equation of time horizontally.</figcaption></figure> <p>The simplest sundials do not give the hours, but rather note the exact moment of 12:00 noon.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In centuries past, such dials were used to set mechanical clocks, which were sometimes so inaccurate as to lose or gain significant time in a single day. The simplest noon-marks have a shadow that passes a mark. Then, an almanac can translate from local solar time and date to civil time. The civil time is used to set the clock. Some noon-marks include a figure-eight that embodies the <a href="/wiki/Equation_of_time" title="Equation of time">equation of time</a>, so that no almanac is needed. </p><p>In some U.S. colonial-era houses, a noon-mark might be carved into a floor or windowsill.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such marks indicate local noon, and provide a simple and accurate time reference for households to set their clocks. Some Asian countries had post offices set their clocks from a precision noon-mark. These in turn provided the times for the rest of the society. The typical noon-mark sundial was a lens set above an <a href="/wiki/Analemma" title="Analemma">analemmatic</a> plate. The plate has an engraved figure-eight shape, which corresponds to the <a href="/wiki/Equation_of_time" title="Equation of time">equation of time</a> (described above) versus the solar declination. When the edge of the Sun's image touches the part of the shape for the current month, this indicates that it is 12:00 noon. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sundial_cannon">Sundial cannon</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Sundial cannon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sundial_cannon" title="Sundial cannon">Sundial cannon</a></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Sundial_cannon" title="Sundial cannon">sundial cannon</a>, sometimes called a 'meridian cannon', is a specialized sundial that is designed to create an 'audible noonmark', by automatically igniting a quantity of gunpowder at noon. These were novelties rather than precision sundials, sometimes installed in parks in Europe mainly in the late 18th or early 19th centuries. They typically consist of a horizontal sundial, which has in addition to a <a href="/wiki/Gnomon" title="Gnomon">gnomon</a> a suitably mounted <a href="/wiki/Lens_(optics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lens (optics)">lens</a>, set to focus the rays of the sun at exactly noon on the firing pan of a miniature <a href="/wiki/Cannon" title="Cannon">cannon</a> loaded with <a href="/wiki/Gunpowder" title="Gunpowder">gunpowder</a> (but no <a href="/wiki/Round_shot" title="Round shot">ball</a>). To function properly the position and angle of the lens must be adjusted seasonally.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Meridian_lines">Meridian lines</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Meridian lines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sun_beam_approaching_the_meridional_line_in_the_Duomo_(Milan).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Sun_beam_approaching_the_meridional_line_in_the_Duomo_%28Milan%29.jpg/220px-Sun_beam_approaching_the_meridional_line_in_the_Duomo_%28Milan%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Sun_beam_approaching_the_meridional_line_in_the_Duomo_%28Milan%29.jpg/330px-Sun_beam_approaching_the_meridional_line_in_the_Duomo_%28Milan%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Sun_beam_approaching_the_meridional_line_in_the_Duomo_%28Milan%29.jpg/440px-Sun_beam_approaching_the_meridional_line_in_the_Duomo_%28Milan%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032" /></a><figcaption>A meridian line in the <a href="/wiki/Duomo_of_Milan" class="mw-redirect" title="Duomo of Milan">Duomo of Milan</a>. The position of the beam of sunlight indicates that it is almost <a href="/wiki/Solar_noon" class="mw-redirect" title="Solar noon">solar noon</a> and the start of <a href="/wiki/Gemini_(astrology)" title="Gemini (astrology)">Gemini</a> season</figcaption></figure> <p>A horizontal line aligned on a <a href="/wiki/Meridian_(geography)" title="Meridian (geography)">meridian</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Gnomon" title="Gnomon">gnomon</a> facing the noon-sun is termed a meridian line and does not indicate the time, but instead the day of the year. Historically they were used to accurately determine the length of the <a href="/wiki/Tropical_year" title="Tropical year">solar year</a>. Examples are the <a href="/wiki/Francesco_Bianchini" title="Francesco Bianchini">Bianchini</a> meridian line in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Maria_degli_Angeli_e_dei_Martiri" title="Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri">Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Domenico_Cassini" title="Giovanni Domenico Cassini">Cassini</a> line in <a href="/wiki/San_Petronio_Basilica#Cassini's_Meridian_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="San Petronio Basilica">San Petronio Basilica</a> at <a href="/wiki/Bologna" title="Bologna">Bologna</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AO-merid_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AO-merid-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sundial_mottoes">Sundial mottoes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Sundial mottoes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_sundial_mottoes" class="mw-redirect" title="List of sundial mottoes">List of sundial mottoes</a></div> <p>The association of sundials with time has inspired their designers over the centuries to display mottoes as part of the design. Often these cast the device in the role of <i><a href="/wiki/Memento_mori" title="Memento mori">memento mori</a></i>, inviting the observer to reflect on the transience of the world and the inevitability of death. "Do not kill time, for it will surely kill thee." Other mottoes are more whimsical: "I count only the sunny hours," and "I am a sundial and I make a botch / of what is done far better by a watch." Collections of sundial mottoes have often been published through the centuries.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Use_as_a_compass">Use as a compass</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Use as a compass"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Compass#Sun_compass" title="Compass">Compass § Sun compass</a></div> <p>If a horizontal-plate sundial is made for the latitude in which it is being used, and if it is mounted with its plate horizontal and its gnomon pointing to the <a href="/wiki/Celestial_pole" title="Celestial pole">celestial pole</a> that is above the horizon, then it shows the correct time in <a href="/wiki/Apparent_solar_time" class="mw-redirect" title="Apparent solar time">apparent solar time</a>. Conversely, if the directions of the <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_point" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal point">cardinal points</a> are initially unknown, but the sundial is aligned so it shows the correct apparent solar time as calculated from the reading of a <a href="/wiki/Clock" title="Clock">clock</a>, its gnomon shows the direction of <a href="/wiki/True_north" title="True north">True north</a> or south, allowing the sundial to be used as a compass. The sundial can be placed on a horizontal surface, and rotated about a vertical axis until it shows the correct time. The gnomon will then be pointing to the north, in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_hemisphere" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern hemisphere">northern hemisphere</a>, or to the south in the southern hemisphere. This method is much more accurate than using a watch as a compass (see <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_direction#Watch_face" title="Cardinal direction">Cardinal direction#Watch face</a>) and can be used in places where the <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_declination" title="Magnetic declination">magnetic declination</a> is large, making a <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_compass" class="mw-redirect" title="Magnetic compass">magnetic compass</a> unreliable. An alternative method uses two sundials of different designs. (See <a href="#Multiple_dials">#Multiple dials</a>, above.) The dials are attached to and aligned with each other, and are oriented so they show the same time. This allows the directions of the cardinal points and the apparent solar time to be determined simultaneously, without requiring a clock.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sundial_at_Wendell_Free_Library_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sundial on Wendell Free Library in Wendell, Massachusetts"><img alt="Sundial on Wendell Free Library in Wendell, Massachusetts" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Sundial_at_Wendell_Free_Library_2.jpg/120px-Sundial_at_Wendell_Free_Library_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Sundial_at_Wendell_Free_Library_2.jpg/180px-Sundial_at_Wendell_Free_Library_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Sundial_at_Wendell_Free_Library_2.jpg/240px-Sundial_at_Wendell_Free_Library_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3918" data-file-height="2939" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Sundial on Wendell Free Library in <a href="/wiki/Wendell,_Massachusetts" title="Wendell, Massachusetts">Wendell, Massachusetts</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sundial_%C5%BDi%C4%8Da.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wall sundial in Žiča Monastery, Serbia"><img alt="Wall sundial in Žiča Monastery, Serbia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Sundial_%C5%BDi%C4%8Da.jpg/120px-Sundial_%C5%BDi%C4%8Da.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Sundial_%C5%BDi%C4%8Da.jpg/180px-Sundial_%C5%BDi%C4%8Da.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Sundial_%C5%BDi%C4%8Da.jpg/240px-Sundial_%C5%BDi%C4%8Da.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="2304" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Wall sundial in <a href="/wiki/%C5%BDi%C4%8Da" title="Žiča">Žiča Monastery</a>, Serbia</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Columbiasundial.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Columbia University sundial uses a 16-ton granite sphere as its gnomon"><img alt="The Columbia University sundial uses a 16-ton granite sphere as its gnomon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Columbiasundial.jpg/120px-Columbiasundial.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Columbiasundial.jpg/180px-Columbiasundial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Columbiasundial.jpg/240px-Columbiasundial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="375" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University_sundial" title="Columbia University sundial">Columbia University sundial</a> uses a 16-ton granite sphere as its gnomon</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Carefree-Carefree_Sundial-1959-2.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="The 1959 Carefree sundial in Carefree, Arizona has a 62-foot (19 m) gnomon, possibly the largest sundial in the United States.[83]"><img alt="The 1959 Carefree sundial in Carefree, Arizona has a 62-foot (19 m) gnomon, possibly the largest sundial in the United States.[83]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Carefree-Carefree_Sundial-1959-2.JPG/120px-Carefree-Carefree_Sundial-1959-2.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Carefree-Carefree_Sundial-1959-2.JPG/180px-Carefree-Carefree_Sundial-1959-2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Carefree-Carefree_Sundial-1959-2.JPG/240px-Carefree-Carefree_Sundial-1959-2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4320" data-file-height="3240" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The 1959 <a href="/wiki/Carefree_sundial" title="Carefree sundial">Carefree sundial</a> in <a href="/wiki/Carefree,_Arizona" title="Carefree, Arizona">Carefree, Arizona</a> has a 62-foot (19 m) gnomon, possibly the largest sundial in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sundial_--_Nassau_Bay,_Texas.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Crude sundial near Johnson Space Center"><img alt="Crude sundial near Johnson Space Center" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Sundial_--_Nassau_Bay%2C_Texas.jpg/120px-Sundial_--_Nassau_Bay%2C_Texas.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="66" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Sundial_--_Nassau_Bay%2C_Texas.jpg/180px-Sundial_--_Nassau_Bay%2C_Texas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Sundial_--_Nassau_Bay%2C_Texas.jpg/240px-Sundial_--_Nassau_Bay%2C_Texas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1498" data-file-height="826" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Crude sundial near Johnson Space Center</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%ED%9C%B4%EB%8C%80%EC%9A%A9_%EC%95%99%EB%B6%80%EC%9D%BC%EA%B5%AC.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/%ED%9C%B4%EB%8C%80%EC%9A%A9_%EC%95%99%EB%B6%80%EC%9D%BC%EA%B5%AC.jpg/220px-%ED%9C%B4%EB%8C%80%EC%9A%A9_%EC%95%99%EB%B6%80%EC%9D%BC%EA%B5%AC.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/%ED%9C%B4%EB%8C%80%EC%9A%A9_%EC%95%99%EB%B6%80%EC%9D%BC%EA%B5%AC.jpg/330px-%ED%9C%B4%EB%8C%80%EC%9A%A9_%EC%95%99%EB%B6%80%EC%9D%BC%EA%B5%AC.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/%ED%9C%B4%EB%8C%80%EC%9A%A9_%EC%95%99%EB%B6%80%EC%9D%BC%EA%B5%AC.jpg/440px-%ED%9C%B4%EB%8C%80%EC%9A%A9_%EC%95%99%EB%B6%80%EC%9D%BC%EA%B5%AC.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3600" data-file-height="2850" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Jang_Yeong-sil#Sundial" title="Jang Yeong-sil"><i>Angbuilgu</i></a>, a portable sundial used in Korea during the <a href="/wiki/Joseon" title="Joseon">Joseon period</a>. The integrated magnetic compass aligns the instrument toward north pole.(<a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_Korea" title="National Museum of Korea">National Museum of Korea</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-sd-angb-nmk_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sd-angb-nmk-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Butterfield_dial" title="Butterfield dial">Butterfield dial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equation_clock" title="Equation clock">Equation clock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foucault_pendulum" title="Foucault pendulum">Foucault pendulum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francesco_Bianchini" title="Francesco Bianchini">Francesco Bianchini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horology" class="mw-redirect" title="Horology">Horology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jantar_Mantar" title="Jantar Mantar">Jantar Mantar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lahaina_Noon" title="Lahaina Noon">Lahaina Noon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moondial" title="Moondial">Moondial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nocturnal_(instrument)" title="Nocturnal (instrument)">Nocturnal</a>—device for determining time by the stars at night.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qibla_observation_by_shadows" title="Qibla observation by shadows">Qibla observation by shadows</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schema_for_horizontal_dials" title="Schema for horizontal dials">Schema for horizontal dials</a>—pen and ruler constructions</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schema_for_vertical_declining_dials" title="Schema for vertical declining dials">Schema for vertical declining dials</a>—pen and ruler constructions</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sciothericum_telescopicum" title="Sciothericum telescopicum">Sciothericum telescopicum</a>—a sundial invented in the 17th century that used a telescopic sight to determine the time of noon to within 15 seconds.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_sundial" title="Scottish sundial">Scottish sundial</a>—the ancient renaissance sundials of Scotland.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadows_(software)" title="Shadows (software)">Shadows</a>—free software for calculating and drawing sundials.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Societat_Catalana_de_Gnom%C3%B2nica" title="Societat Catalana de Gnomònica">Societat Catalana de Gnomònica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tide_dial" title="Tide dial">Tide (time)</a>—divisions of the day on early sundials.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_clock" title="Water clock">Water clock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilan%C3%B3w_Palace#The_sundial" title="Wilanów Palace">Wilanów Palace Sundial</a>, created by <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Hevelius" title="Johannes Hevelius">Johannes Hevelius</a> in about 1684.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zero_shadow_day" class="mw-redirect" title="Zero shadow day">Zero shadow day</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> In some technical writing, the word "gnomon" can also mean the perpendicular height of a nodus from the dial plate. The point where the style intersects the dial plate is called the <i>gnomon root</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> A clock showing sundial time always agrees with a sundial in the same locality.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Strictly, <a href="/wiki/Local_mean_time" title="Local mean time">local mean time</a> rather than standard time should be used. However, using standard time makes the sundial more useful, since it does not have to be corrected for time zone or longitude.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The equation of time is considered to be positive when "sundial time" is ahead of "clock time", negative otherwise. See the graph shown in the section <a href="#Equation_of_time_correction">#Equation of time correction</a>, above. For example, if the equation of time is -5 minutes and the standard time is 9:40, the sundial time is 9:35.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> An example of such a half-cylindrical dial may be found at <a href="/wiki/Wellesley_College" title="Wellesley College">Wellesley College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a href="/wiki/Chaucer" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaucer">Chaucer</a>: as in his <i>Parson's Tale</i>: <dl><dd>It was four o'clock according to my guess,</dd> <dd>Since eleven feet, a little more or less,</dd> <dd>my shadow at the time did fall,</dd> <dd>Considering that I myself am six feet tall.</dd></dl> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_3" title="Henry VI, Part 3">Henry VI, Part 3</a>: <dl><dd>O God! methinks it were a happy life</dd> <dd>To be no better than a homely swain;</dd> <dd>To sit upon a hill, as I do now,</dd> <dd>To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,</dd> <dd>Thereby to see the minutes, how they run –</dd> <dd>How many makes the hour full complete,</dd> <dd>How many hours brings about the day,</dd> <dd>How many days will finish up the year,</dd> <dd>How many years a mortal man may live.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> For example, in the <i><a href="/wiki/Canterbury_Tales" class="mw-redirect" title="Canterbury Tales">Canterbury Tales</a></i>, the monk says <dl><dd>"Goth now your wey," quod he, "al stille and softe,</dd> <dd>And lat us dyne as sone as that ye may;</dd> <dd>for by my chilindre it is pryme of day."<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="A complete citation is needed. (June 2023)">full citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></dd></dl> </span></li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-VHD-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-VHD_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFVHD1841" class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/vhd/heritagevic#detail_places;1841">"Flagstaff Gardens, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H2041, Heritage Overlay HO793"</a>. <i>Victorian Heritage Database</i>. Heritage Victoria<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-09-16</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Victorian+Heritage+Database&rft.atitle=Flagstaff+Gardens%2C+Victorian+Heritage+Register+%28VHR%29+Number+H2041%2C+Heritage+Overlay+HO793&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fvhd.heritage.vic.gov.au%2Fvhd%2Fheritagevic%23detail_places%3B1841&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASundial" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMoss" class="citation web cs1">Moss, Tony. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130802033857/http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/HDSW.php">"How do sundials work"</a>. British Sundial society. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/HDSW.php">the original</a> on August 2, 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 September</span> 2013</span>. <q>This ugly plastic 'non-dial' does nothing at all except display the 'designer's ignorance and persuade the general public that 'real' sundials don't work.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=How+do+sundials+work&rft.pub=British+Sundial+society&rft.aulast=Moss&rft.aufirst=Tony&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sundialsoc.org.uk%2FHDSW.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASundial" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTrentinRepetto2013" class="citation book cs1">Trentin, Guglielmo; Repetto, Manuela (2013-02-08). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cAFEAgAAQBAJ&q=The+principles+of+sundials+are+understood+most+easily+from+the+Sun%27s+apparent+motion.&pg=PA52"><i>Using Network and Mobile Technology to Bridge Formal and Informal Learning</i></a>. Elsevier. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781780633626" title="Special:BookSources/9781780633626"><bdi>9781780633626</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230421080805/https://books.google.com/books?id=cAFEAgAAQBAJ&q=The+principles+of+sundials+are+understood+most+easily+from+the+Sun%27s+apparent+motion.&pg=PA52">Archived</a> from the original on 2023-04-21<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2013-07-12</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Digital+sundial&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalsundial.com%2Fpatent.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASundial" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-87">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRohr1996">Rohr (1996)</a>, pp. 114–115</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-88">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWaugh1973">Waugh (1973)</a>, pp. 18–28</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-89">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMayallMayall1994">Mayall & Mayall (1994)</a>, p. 26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-AO-merid-90"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-AO-merid_90-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFManaugh2016" class="citation web cs1">Manaugh, Geoff (15 November 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/catholics-built-secret-astronomical-features-into-churches-to-help-save-souls">"Why Catholics built secret astronomical features into churches to help save souls"</a>. <i>Atlas Obscura (atlasobscura.com)</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161124093223/http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/catholics-built-secret-astronomical-features-into-churches-to-help-save-souls">Archived</a> from the original on 24 November 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 November</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Atlas+Obscura+%28atlasobscura.com%29&rft.atitle=Why+Catholics+built+secret+astronomical+features+into+churches+to+help+save+souls&rft.date=2016-11-15&rft.aulast=Manaugh&rft.aufirst=Geoff&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atlasobscura.com%2Farticles%2Fcatholics-built-secret-astronomical-features-into-churches-to-help-save-souls&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASundial" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-91"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-91">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSanford" class="citation report cs1">Sanford, W. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092945/http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/sundials/temp/its-about-time/FS_SundialAndGeometry.pdf">The sundial and geometry</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> (Report). p. 38. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/sundials/temp/its-about-time/FS_SundialAndGeometry.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 2016-03-04.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=report&rft.btitle=The+sundial+and+geometry&rft.pages=38&rft.aulast=Sanford&rft.aufirst=W.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsanford.com%2F~wsanford%2Fsundials%2Ftemp%2Fits-about-time%2FFS_SundialAndGeometry.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASundial" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-sd-angb-nmk-92"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-sd-angb-nmk_92-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.museum.go.kr/program/relic/relicDetailEng.jsp?menuID=002004001&relicID=2399&relicDetailID=9594&currentPage=1&pageSize=10&keyWord=852&searchSelect=TREASURECODE&langCodeCon=LC2&back=relicSearchListEng">"Portable Hemispherical Sundial"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 30,</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Portable+Hemispherical+Sundial&rft.pub=National+Museum+of+Korea&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.museum.go.kr%2Fprogram%2Frelic%2FrelicDetailEng.jsp%3FmenuID%3D002004001%26relicID%3D2399%26relicDetailID%3D9594%26currentPage%3D1%26pageSize%3D10%26keyWord%3D852%26searchSelect%3DTREASURECODE%26langCodeCon%3DLC2%26back%3DrelicSearchListEng&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASundial" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sources">Sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrandmaier2005" class="citation journal cs1">Brandmaier, H. (March 2005). "Sundial design using matrices". <i>The Compendium</i>. <b>12</b> (1). North American Sundial Society.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Compendium&rft.atitle=Sundial+design+using+matrices&rft.volume=12&rft.issue=1&rft.date=2005-03&rft.aulast=Brandmaier&rft.aufirst=H.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASundial" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDaniel2004" class="citation book cs1">Daniel, Christopher St. J.H. (2004). <i>Sundials</i>. Shire Album. Vol. 176 (2nd revised ed.). Shire Publications. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0747805588" title="Special:BookSources/978-0747805588"><bdi>978-0747805588</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sundials&rft.series=Shire+Album&rft.edition=2nd+revised&rft.pub=Shire+Publications&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0747805588&rft.aulast=Daniel&rft.aufirst=Christopher+St.+J.H.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASundial" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEarle1971" class="citation book cs1">Earle, A.M. (1971) [1902]. <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/sundialsrosesofy0000earl"><i>Sundials and Roses of Yesterday</i></a></span> (reprint ed.). Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8048-0968-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-8048-0968-2"><bdi>0-8048-0968-2</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/74142763">74142763</a> – via Internet Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sundials+and+Roses+of+Yesterday&rft.place=Rutland%2C+VT&rft.edition=reprint&rft.pub=Charles+E.+Tuttle&rft.date=1971&rft_id=info%3Alccn%2F74142763&rft.isbn=0-8048-0968-2&rft.aulast=Earle&rft.aufirst=A.M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fsundialsrosesofy0000earl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASundial" class="Z3988"></span> Reprint of the 1902 book published by Macmillan (New York).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHeilbron2001" class="citation book cs1">Heilbron, J.L. 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Cambridge, MA: Sky Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-933346-71-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-933346-71-9"><bdi>0-933346-71-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sundials%3A+Their+construction+and+use&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.edition=3rd&rft.pub=Sky+Publishing&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=0-933346-71-9&rft.aulast=Mayall&rft.aufirst=R.N.&rft.au=Mayall%2C+M.W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASundial" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMichnik1922" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Michnik, Hugo (1922). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://zenodo.org/record/1424938">"Theorie einer Bifilar-Sonnenuhr"</a> [Theory of a bifilar sunial]. <i>Astronomische Nachrichten</i> (in German). <b>217</b> (5190): 81–90. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1922AN....217...81M">1922AN....217...81M</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fasna.19222170602">10.1002/asna.19222170602</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Astronomische+Nachrichten&rft.atitle=Theorie+einer+Bifilar-Sonnenuhr&rft.volume=217&rft.issue=5190&rft.pages=81-90&rft.date=1922&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1002%2Fasna.19222170602&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1922AN....217...81M&rft.aulast=Michnik&rft.aufirst=Hugo&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fzenodo.org%2Frecord%2F1424938&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASundial" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRohr1996" class="citation book cs1">Rohr, R.R.J. (1996) [1965, 1970]. <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/sundialshistoryt0000rohr"><i>Sundials: History, theory, and practice</i></a></span>. Translated by Godin, G. (reprint ed.). New York, NY: Dover. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-486-29139-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-486-29139-1"><bdi>0-486-29139-1</bdi></a> – via Internet Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sundials%3A+History%2C+theory%2C+and+practice&rft.place=New+York%2C+NY&rft.edition=reprint&rft.pub=Dover&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=0-486-29139-1&rft.aulast=Rohr&rft.aufirst=R.R.J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fsundialshistoryt0000rohr&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASundial" class="Z3988"></span> Slightly amended reprint of the 1970 translation published by University of Toronto Press (Toronto). The original was<br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRohr1965" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Rohr, R.R.J. 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(March 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dls-website.com/documents/SundialDesignConsiderations.pdf">"Sundial design considerations"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>The Compendium</i>. <b>22</b> (1). St. Louis, MO: North American Sundial Society. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1074-3197">1074-3197</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190416005426/http://dls-website.com/documents/SundialDesignConsiderations.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 16 April 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup> – Dutch Sundial Society (in English)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.zonnewijzerkringvlaanderen.be/">Zonnewijzerkring Vlaanderen</a> – Flemish Sundial Society</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical">Historical</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: Historical"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2841">"The Book of Remedies from Deficiencies in Setting Up Marble Sundials"</a> is an Arabic manuscript from 1319 about timekeeping and sundials.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wdl.org/en/item/4260">"Small Treatise on the Calculation of Tables for the Construction of Inclined Sundials"</a> is another Arabic manuscript, from the 16th century, about the mathematical calculations used to create sundials. It was written by <a href="/wiki/Sibt_al-Maridini" title="Sibt al-Maridini">Sibt al-Maridini</a>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaatec.org/documents/article/vl2.pdf">Vodolazhskaya, L. Analemmatic and Horizontal Sundials of the Bronze Age (Northern Black Sea Coast). <i>Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies</i> 1(1), 2013, 68-88</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaatec.org/documents/article/vl4.pdf">Reconstruction of ancient Egyptian sundials</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sundial&action=edit&section=56" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://realsuntime.com/">Real Sun Time – Sundial as a mobile or desktop version</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sundialsofscotland.co.uk">Register of Scottish Sundials</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sundialing.space/">Sundialing Space – Sundial 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title="Unit of time">Unit of time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(time)" title="Orders of magnitude (time)">Orders of magnitude (time)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;font-weight:normal; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/System_of_measurement" class="mw-redirect" title="System of measurement">Measurement<br />systems</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italian_six-hour_clock" title="Italian six-hour clock">Italian six-hour clock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thai_six-hour_clock" title="Thai six-hour clock">Thai six-hour clock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12-hour_clock" title="12-hour clock">12-hour clock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/24-hour_clock" title="24-hour clock">24-hour clock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Relative_hour" title="Relative hour">Relative hour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">Daylight saving time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_timekeeping" title="Traditional Chinese timekeeping">Chinese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decimal_time" title="Decimal time">Decimal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hexadecimal_time" title="Hexadecimal time">Hexadecimal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindu_units_of_time" title="Hindu units of time">Hindu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metric_time" title="Metric time">Metric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_timekeeping" title="Roman timekeeping">Roman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidereal_time" title="Sidereal time">Sidereal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solar_time" title="Solar time">Solar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;font-weight:normal; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Calendar" title="Calendar">Calendars</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" 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title="Chronology">Chronology</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/History" title="History">History</a></li></ul></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Astronomical_chronology" title="Astronomical chronology">Astronomical chronology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_History" title="Big History">Big History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calendar_era" title="Calendar era">Calendar era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_time" title="Deep time">Deep time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Periodization" title="Periodization">Periodization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regnal_year" title="Regnal year">Regnal year</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline" title="Timeline">Timeline</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_space_and_time" title="Philosophy of space and time">Philosophy of time</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;font-weight:normal; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Geology" title="Geology">Geology</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geologic_time_scale" title="Geologic time scale">Geological time</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Age_(geology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Age (geology)">age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronozone" title="Chronozone">chron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eon_(geology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eon (geology)">eon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epoch_(geology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Epoch (geology)">epoch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Era_(geology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Era (geology)">era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geological_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Geological period">period</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geochronology" title="Geochronology">Geochronology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geological_history_of_Earth" title="Geological history of Earth">Geological history of Earth</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;font-weight:normal; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Time_in_physics" title="Time in physics">Physics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Absolute_space_and_time" title="Absolute space and time">Absolute space and time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arrow_of_time" title="Arrow of time">Arrow of time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronon" title="Chronon">Chronon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coordinate_time" title="Coordinate time">Coordinate time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Instant" title="Instant">Instant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proper_time" title="Proper 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