Interesting pic I found
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Interesting pic I found
I found this pic at The North American Sundial Society web page. Maybe Bessler used something like this for encoding.
Last edited by Ron Flory on Wed Nov 12, 2003 7:54 am, edited 2 times in total.
re: Interesting pic I found
Are you suggesting that he used an encode/decode wheel [somewhat like those old decoder rings I imagine, :)] or that he literally used some sort of sundial encoding system?
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