Le Mont Solaire

Oversized and unusual sundials are one of this Society’s fascinations. This past September the French army installed 600 one meter square reflective panels in the shape of Roman numerals on the sands of Mont Saint-Michel, a small rocky island off the coast of Normandy. The island’s 150-foot abbey spire cast a shadow three quarters of a mile long that swept across the numerals, making the timekeeper the largest sundial ever constructed, beating out Jaipur, India’s Samrat Yantra, previously described in these Proceedings.
* A video of the sundial in action.
* Previously in the Proceedings: Kircher’s Sunflower Clock, The Astronomical Clock of Besançon, Digital Sundials, Writing Time on the Clouds
[Acknowledgments to Moon River]
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