Sundial - Ottawa, Ontario
Posted by: JSDAFM
N 45° 27.038 W 075° 41.252
18T E 446238 N 5033241
Sundial carved by Art Price - 1976
Waymark Code: WM9Z9Y
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 10/21/2010
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In 1975, Torontonian Max Florence, to demonstrate his love for Canada, sent his life savings to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. To mark the donation, the federal government commissioned this unusual sundial carved in a block of pink granite.
This hemispherium dial is a dramatic modern sculpture. The 32 inch quarter hemisphere is carved into the edge of a 40 inch cube of dark granite, tilted to conform to its latitude of 45.5º: and set upon a rough concrete pedestal of slightly smaller dimension. The gnomon is a thin metal arrow protruding from the top face of the dark granite block to the center of the sphere. Hours are indicated by hewn lines about 8 inches long.
Sundial Type: Analemmatic - Vertical gnomon with elliptical dial
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