Year 2010

Sundial of the month July

Sundial

Vianen

Four young men carry a large stone which originally had the shape of a cube.
Chamfering the edges under 45 degrees results in a solid with eight vertical faces.
On these vertical faces are sundials, indicating local apparent time.

The five faces from east, through south, to west have ordinary hour line patterns.

The other three faces, however, show also the night hours.
For example, the north face has hour lines from 6 pm, via midnight, up to 6 am.
The night hours after 8 pm and before 4 am are of course redundant, but not actually wrong.
However, we do miss the hours of 4 to 6 pm, and those of 6 to 8 am.
All in all, this is somewhat the odd man out.

Fer de Vries

Adres: Lijnbaan, Vianen Materiaal: zandsteen