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Includes general information, links, a register of dials in North America, and a message board.
Information on the society, links, beginner's pages, including simple sundial patterns and templates, online facilities to calculate hour lines for different sundial types.
Describes design and construction of a six meter wide analemmatic sundial in Canada.
Software to design a vertical (wall mounting) sundial for walls that face up to 60 degrees away from due-south.
Describes sundials that can tell sunrise and sunset times, the angle of solar declination and the time at night. (Flash based site).
Describes a number of sundials of different types, mostly from northern Europe.
Photographs with descriptions, showing a number of patterns painted on walls.
Offers advice, instructions, and resources for creating a wide variety of sundials.
Account includes a description of the commoner types, an explanation of the relevant science and maths, and a history of sundial use.
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.
An essay on the use of sundials in gardens.
Descriptions of these vertical post sundials, why they work, detailed account of the maths necessary to plot the hour lines.
Animations of some of the historical stages of the development of sundials.
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.
A range of sundials for measuring the hours and reading the season as well as astronomical instruments for complex calculations.