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Hooke’s joint and the Avignon sundial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

H. Martyn Cundy
Affiliation:
2 Applerigg, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 6EA
Richard W. Hogg
Affiliation:
Hillbrow, Botany Hill, Sands, Farnham, Surrey GU10 1LZ

Extract

In the summer at Avignon a little Disneyland train conveys tourists from the Palais des Papes to the summit of a little hill behind the cathedral called the Rocher des Doms. In the garden on this hill there is a most remarkable sundial; the visitor himself provides the gnomon, and a linear scale on the flagstone pavement shows him where to stand at different dates. His shadow then falls towards one or other of a ring of fixed pyramidal markers which indicate the hours of the day.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1984

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