Designing a Sundial from Scratch Walking （从头开始设计一个日晷散步）.pdf

Designing a Sundial from Scratch Roger Bailey NASS 2003 Banff Designing a Sundial from Scratch • No reference books • No computers or design software • No Internet access • Use Greek geometry: Ruler and Compass • Use geometric construction • Extend geometry to derive trigonometry • Protractor? Trig tables? Calculator? • Teambuilding exercise? Equinoctial Tangent Line 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 Equinoctial Tangent Line • Picture an Armillary Sphere or equatorial sundial looking down the polar axis at Equatorial plane • Equatorial disc as a circle, time angles 15° • Angles (90, 60, 45, 30,15) using ruler and compass • Horizontal Tangent line 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 d = r Tan t Equinoctial Tangent Line • Equinoctial Line defines the Polar Sundial where the plane is parallel to the gnomon • Equatorial Line is the intersection line at the base of horizontal and vertical south facing sundials • The gnomon intersection point and the distances on 8