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Letter: Sundial is more backward than that

Published 2 September 2015

From David Muir

You write that sundials are aligned north (8 August, p 13). This is true in the northern hemisphere.

Readers in the southern hemisphere – where sundials are aligned south – may take umbrage at this hemispherism.
Edinburgh, UK

Issue no. 3037 published 5 September 2015

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