So, whats the point of placing a sundial precisely at this region ?
I was actually asked this question by many of the students of the high school at Tenango de Doria during the opening ceremony of the sundial, and my answer to them was that a sundial does not require any justification because it is its own justification. The reason of being of the sundial is just being. And even if it’s cloudy half of the year, it’s still sunny the other half. And the fact remains that all sundials are, and this one in particular is, a great didactic open book in which we can read the apparent movements of the sun across the sky hour by hour and day by day and correlate them in a direct and visual way to the abstract notions of rotation and translation that we learn at school in our younger years. More curious souls will start wondering what’s the meaning of that eight shaped curve called the equation of time and will perhaps learn of some of the irregularities in the movement of the earth on its own axis and on its yearly path around the sun. When the time comes to ma
Related Questions
- Why is WHO placing great emphasis on alcohol-based handrubs, at the point of care, and promoting them as the international standard for hand hygiene?
- How far can we move away from the nominal point p (under the worst-case scenario) without leaving the region of stability S?
- Why is most trigger point pain "referred" to another region?
