Sundials (Subscribe)
Links
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.
The North American Sundial Society
Includes general information, links, a register of dials in North America, and a message board.
The British Sundial Society
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 Analemmatic Sundial
http://www.steveirvine.com/sundial.html
Describes design and construction of a six meter wide analemmatic sundial in Canada.
Sundials: the Art of Shadows
An essay on the use of sundials in gardens.
Sundials on the Internet
A major information source, with projects, detailed technical information, links to related sites, listings of societies.
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.
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.
Sundial Design Program
Software to design a vertical (wall mounting) sundial for walls that face up to 60 degrees away from due-south.
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.
SUNDI: Sundial Design Software
http://members.kabsi.at/i.krastev/sundi/
Shareware and freeware software for design and planning for the most popular.
Sunbeams & Sundials - Liverpool Museums
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/
Guides to the use of the sun for telling time and marking the seasons.
Solar Time
Describes sundials that can tell sunrise and sunset times, the angle of solar declination and the time at night. (Flash based site).
Scottish Sundials
http://www.scottishsundials.co.uk/
Describes and illustrates dials in the country, can be searched by county, type or period of construction.
Phil's Sundial Photo Gallery
http://www.sundial.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Includes British and international sundials with description and exact location; sun compasses.
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.
Images of the MarsDial - The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/marsdial/images.html
Descriptions and images of the sundials carried to Mars on the Rover missions.
Frans Maes' Sundial Site
http://www.fransmaes.nl/zonnewijzers/welcome-e.htm
Describes a number of sundials of different types, mostly from northern Europe.
Encyclopaedia Britannica - Sundials and Shadow Clocks
http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-60367
Animations of some of the historical stages of the development of sundials.
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.
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.