Sundial

Museo della Civiltà Contadina del

Friuli Imperiale (Sundials courtyard)

Photo n° 4

Analemnatic sundials are characterized by mobile gnomons.

To read the time you must:

-         position yourself on the axis of the table in the middle of the quadrant

-         position your feet on the date corresponding to the period of the reading

-         your shadow will indicate the solar time

In the pictue: the author of the sundial, Eligio D’Ambrosio from Castions di Strada (UD).

 

 

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