Sundial with "multitudinous faces"?

beet 31425 · 12 May 2011, 07:27 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: beet31425 at gmail.com (beet 31425)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 00:27:10 -0700
Subject: (urth) Sundial with "multitudinous faces"?
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=Av8hgtqywSRrR2u2RK1besHpTBg at mail.gmail.com>

Hi folks-- first-time poster. Doing a pretty detailed re-read of New Sun.

I'm having trouble visualizing the sundial in the Atrium of Time. It's
described as "one of those old, faceted dials whose multitudinous faces give
each a different time." And later, there is a reference to "one of its
gnomons", implying it has more than one. What kind of a sundial has multiple
faces and gnomons? I'm having trouble visualizing it. Any thoughts?

btw, it's pretty cool that "Aspice ut aspiciar", translated as "Look on me
that I might be looked upon", is an appeal made to the sun (not to a human
bystander).

-Jason
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