Year 2006

Sundial of the month March

Polyhedral sundial

124 sundials in one object

Juan Serra Busquets of Spain is the winner of the international "LE OMBRE DEL TEMPO, 2005" contest.
He designed a polyhedral sundial consisting of 124 dials.
In the past, polyhedral sundials were more common. They enabled their makers to show off their great gnomonic skill.

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Juan Serra Busquets is also the webmaster of the Spanish web site "Carpe Diem". You can see more of his work
here.

Fer de Vries

Data provided by Reinhold Kriegler, Germany.

English translation: RH