Directory of Sundials Resources

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Sundials are devices for telling time by measuring the position of the shadow of the sun. This category lists websites concerned with the theory of sundials.

Resources in This Category

• A Photo Collection of Beautiful Painted Wall Sundials

  http://advanceassociates.com/WallDial/PWS_Home.html
  Photographs with descriptions, showing a number of patterns painted on walls.

• Analemmatic Sundials

  http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue11/features/sundials/index
  Descriptions of these vertical post sundials, why they work, detailed account of the maths necessary to plot the hour lines.

• Cadrans Solaire

  http://pagesperso-orange.fr/blateyron/sundials/gb/
  Describes different types of sundials, has other technical and general information. Offers free Shadows software to compute sundials of a number of different types for anywhere in the world.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica - Sundials and Shadow Clocks

  http://www.britannica.com/technology/sundial
  Animations of some of the historical stages of the development of sundials.

• Frans Maes' Sundial Site

  http://www.fransmaes.nl/zonnewijzers/welcome-e.htm
  Describes a number of sundials of different types, mostly from northern Europe.

• Jaipur - Jantar Mantar

  http://www.bomhard.de/englisch/jaipur/00.html
  Describes the jantar mantar (or yantra mandir) of Jaipur, and the massive sundials and other astronomical devices built there.

• Macmillan Hunter Sundials

  http://www.macmillanhunter.co.uk/
  A range of sundials for measuring the hours and reading the season as well as astronomical instruments for complex calculations.

• Solar Time

  http://www.art-spaces.com/solardials/
  Describes sundials that can tell sunrise and sunset times, the angle of solar declination and the time at night. (Flash based site).

• Sunbeams & Sundials - Liverpool Museums

  http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/sun/
  Guides to the use of the sun for telling time and marking the seasons.

• SUNDI: Sundial Design Software

  http://members.kabsi.at/i.krastev/sundi/
  Shareware and freeware software for design and planning for the most popular.

• Sundial - Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial
  Account includes a description of the commoner types, an explanation of the relevant science and maths, and a history of sundial use.

• Sundial Design Program

  http://www.sunshadow.co.uk/
  Software to design a vertical (wall mounting) sundial for walls that face up to 60 degrees away from due-south.

• Sundial Information

  http://home.netcom.com/~abraxas2/sun.htm
  Describes sundial parts and names, the basic types, and has make your own pages for three simple types of dial.

• Sundials

  http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/sundials.html
  Describes the history and development in Europe from the time of the Greeks. Includes literary and poetic references.

• Sundials of Scotland

  http://www.sundialsofscotland.co.uk/
  Descriptions with photographs of Scottish sundials, ancient, old and new as well as sundials from some other places. Includes registers of sundials seen, which are fully searchable by any criterion.

• Sundials on the Internet

  http://www.sundials.co.uk/
  A major information source, with projects, detailed technical information, links to related sites, listings of societies.

• Sundials: the Art of Shadows

  http://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/garden_landscape_design_articles/garden_design_ideas/sundials_art_shadows_landscape
  An essay on the use of sundials in gardens.

• The Analemmatic Sundial

  http://www.steveirvine.com/sundial.html
  Describes design and construction of a six meter wide analemmatic sundial in Canada.

• The British Sundial Society

  http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/
  Information on the society, links, beginner's pages, including simple sundial patterns and templates, online facilities to calculate hour lines for different sundial types.

• The North American Sundial Society

  http://sundials.org/
  Includes general information, links, a register of dials in North America, and a message board.

• The Sundial Primer - Get "Hooked on Gnomonics"

  http://www.mysundial.ca/tsp/tsp.html
  Offers advice, instructions, and resources for creating a wide variety of sundials.

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