OK, well, maybe I don't have this quite right then.
I was working under the assumption that the summer solstice is the longest day of the year and that the sun tracks the highest on that day.
I also understand your point of the sunrise being furthest north "on the compass" as it were. I had just assumed that the suns track across the sky would follow that "most northerly" route as well. You have to remember, I'm not a scientist or teacher. I hit shit with a hammer for a living.
But what you're saying is that the highest point really doesn't come into play at all. It's more of the length of the show than the height of it.
I'm kinda bummed now.
But what about the ancients figuring out the circumference of the earth by the sun shining down wells somewhere in the middle east and compairing that to wells in other parts that weren't fully lit by the sun. I don't know if that was on the solstice or not as I was sleepy that day in class. But the sun does have different tracks, at different elevations through the sky at different times of the year. Right?