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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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The North American Sundial Society

http://sundials.org/

Includes general information, links, a register of dials in North America, and a message board.

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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.

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The Analemmatic Sundial

http://www.steveirvine.com/sundial.html

Describes design and construction of a six meter wide analemmatic sundial in Canada.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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SUNDI: Sundial Design Software

http://members.kabsi.at/i.krastev/sundi/

Shareware and freeware software for design and planning for the most popular.

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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.

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Solar Time

http://www.solardials.com/

Describes sundials that can tell sunrise and sunset times, the angle of solar declination and the time at night. (Flash based site).

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Scottish Sundials

http://www.scottishsundials.co.uk/

Describes and illustrates dials in the country, can be searched by county, type or period of construction.

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Phil's Sundial Photo Gallery

http://www.sundial.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Includes British and international sundials with description and exact location; sun compasses.

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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.

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Frans Maes' Sundial Site

http://www.fransmaes.nl/zonnewijzers/welcome-e.htm

Describes a number of sundials of different types, mostly from northern Europe.

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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.

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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.

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