Sundials at the Cordon school

Two sundials designed in 1993 by pupils from Cordon school are now affixed, one on the east wall, declining in the morning, the other on the west wall.

Two sundials were designed in 1993 by Cordon schoolchildren and are displayed today, one on the east wall, the other on the west wall. The sundial on the downstream wall of Cordon elementary school features a declining morning sun, painted on an equatorial panel, with solstice and quarter arcs. Dated from 1993 to 1994, the written motto is "morning sun reaches out to me". It indicates the hours from 5 to 12, as well as the half-hours. It bears 3 arches of the signs and symbols of the zodiac. A golden star completes its style, emerging from the upper corner. At the bottom, the names of the creators: F. Denizot, A. Terre-Vecchia and Y. Bottolier-Lemallaz. Latitude and longitude are inscribed. A 2nd sundial, built in 1993, is located in the courtyard of the elementary school and was created by the same headmistress, Monique Gerola. Painted on wood, it dominates the playground. The light is strongly declining in the evening. The stars populate the night sky at top right. Below, on the blue beach, our planet bears flowers and a rooster heralding daybreak. The hourly fan radiates from the center of the sun. There's a bow for Candlemas and one for May 1st. Its polar style features a heart with an eyecup. It was designed on the advice of F. Denizot, A. Terre-Vecchia and others. The first is visible from the road. The second is in the schoolyard, not accessible during school hours. A sundial is a silent, immobile instrument that indicates solar time by moving the shadow of a variable-shaped object, the gnomon or style, over a surface, the sundial table, associated with a set of graduations traced on this surface. The table is generally flat, but can also be concave, convex, spherical, cylindrical, etc.