Description
The Horizontal sundial has two main parts: the Gnomon and the Horizontal dial plate. The Gnomon is the vertical part of the sundial that casts a shadow in order to tell time. The Horizontal dial plate of this sundial consists of hour lines that radiate outward from the very top of the Gnomon.
All the hour lines intersect at the point where the gnomon’s style crosses the horizontal plane. Since the style is aligned with the Earth’s rotational axis, the style points true North and its angle with the horizontal equals the sundial’s geographical latitude L.
Each ordered sundial accurately calculated and constructed by our specialists for sundial’s mounting location*. (* Many mass-produced „ornamental“ Horizontal sundials are designed to be used at 45 degrees north. Those sundials fail to correctly calculate the hour lines and so can never be corrected.).