Make a sundial. “Sundial” can be a metaphor. Make and document a prototype for class two, and improve the sundial for class three.
Due: documented online by class three (September 15).
See Ideas on Sundials.
Incense is as ancient a timekeeping tool as the sundial. But does artificially defined time mean anything to an incense stick or a sundial? When incense burns out, we can no longer read the time from the sundial stamped on the incense holder. This incense may be freed from the bondage of human time as it burns and lives as some substances in eternity. So does the sundial, without the incense stick, it loses the timekeeping function. But the artificial time does not turn to ashes as the incense burns out…
**Autumn Leaves** - Nat King Cole
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Since you went away the days grow long
And soon I'll hear old winter's song
But I miss you most of all my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall
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**An Incense Stick of Time** & **Ashes of Time**
In ancient times, some people in Asia used incense sticks as a form of primitive clock
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Shadow drifted in the darkness of the night
And did not go up in smoke
In the time of an incense stick
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Horizontal Sundial Shadow Angle Calculator
