Coral Castle Sundial - Homestead, FL
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flyingmoose
N 25° 30.037 W 080° 26.660
17R E 555843 N 2820498
Located within Coral Castle, this sundial is quite unique and worth the price of admission along with all the other unique sights.
Waymark Code: WM12MVC
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 06/17/2020
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Amid the many coral blocks (oolitic limestone rock) carved by eccentric Edward Leedskalnin (1887-1951) is a huge monolithic sundial. The gnomon is a horizontal L-shaped piece of iron fastened to the north corner of a limestone block about 8 feet high, weighing about 15 short-tons. Below the gnomon, carved into a second block of limestone is a portion of a hemisphere, smoothly filled in with concrete. Drawn on the hemisphere are analemma shaped hour and half-hour lines from 9am to 4pm. You can read the time with an accuracy of about two-minutes.
The dial construction date is based on Leedskalnin book "Magnetic Current" published in 1945 which explains his interest in alignments of earth and moon and that his book is the culmination of two years of experiments with magnets and electricity.
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