Sundials - Research Resources
This is a guide to resources on the history, site
planning, and design of sundials. This selected list includes reference
sources, and strategies for finding materials at UC Berkeley and on the
Internet.
Compiled by Susan Koskinen, Environmental
Design Library, 2004
Links
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The Analemma -
The figure-8 path that the sun makes in the sky is called the analemma.
- http://www.analemma.com/
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Heliodon, Pacific Energy Center, PG & E. Heliodons provide an effective tool
for the visualization and calculation of solar effects at the window, building,
or site scale. Access to heliodons via Center for Environmental Design Research Building Science Laboratory.
- http://www.pge.com/pec/heliodon/
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The
Mars Sundial
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap990428.html
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The North American Sundial
Society - include publications, links, conference information.
- http://sundials.org/
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Sun Angle
Calculator - SunAngle computes the position
of the sun and related information for a given location, date, and time.
This information may be useful in building design, solar energy system
design, photography, and other applications.
- http://www.susdesign.com/sunangle/
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Sundials
on the Internet - includes technical information, books, etc.
- http://www.sundials.co.uk/
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Timecenter.com - When Time Began - The History and Science of Sundials - brief history of sundials with links to additional websites.
- http://www.timecenter.com/articles/when-time-began-the-history-and-science-of-sundials/
Books
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Alt-Augsburger Kompassmacher; Sonnen-, Mond- und Sternuhren,
astronomische und mathematische Gerate, Raderuhren. Augsburg, H. Rosler.
[1966].
NRLF B 4 250 954 Type EXP NRLF for loan details.
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Analemmatic sundial
sourcebook: including recent work and English translations of early source
texts on the analemmatic sundial and the variable-center dials that derive
from it. Compiled and edited by Frederick W. Sawyer.
Glastonbury, CT : North American Sundial Society, c2004. Note: no.136
of 140 Limited First Edition. Festschrift marking the tenth anniversary
of the North American Sundial society. Includes historical development
of the sundial with diagrams and measurements.
Environ Dsgn QB215.S285 2004 Permanent Reserve.
On 2 hour reserve
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The art of sundial construction /by Peter I. Drinkwater.
2nd ed. Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, Eng.: P. Drinkwater, 1987.
EnvDesign QB215 .D75 1987
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The book of sun-dials / collected by Mrs. Alfred Gatty.
New and enl. ed. / edited by H. K. F. Gatty and Eleanor Lloyd ; with an
appendix on the construction of dials by W. Richardson. London :
G. Bell, 1889.
EnvDesign QB215 .G3 1889 Rare // Main QB215 .G3 1889
also EnvDesign QB215 .G3 1900a
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The book of old sundials & their mottoes, with
eight illustrations in colour by Alfred Rawlings and thirty-six drawings
of some famous sundials by Warrington Hogg. London, Boston [etc.]
T.N. Foulis [1917].
EnvDesign QB215 .B6 1917 Rare
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Cambridge sundials / [Alexis Brookes, Margaret Stanier].
[England : s.n., between 1988 and 1998] (Cambridge : Pendragon Press).
EnvDesign QB215 .B69 1988
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A celebration of Cornish sundials / Carolyn Martin
; illustrations by Tessa Fearnley. Trewolsta, Trewirgie : Dyllansow
Truran, 1994.
EnvDesign QB215 .M306 1994
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A choice of sundials / Winthrop W. Dolan. Brattleboro,
Vt.: S. Greene Press, [1975].
EnvDesign QB215 .D63 1975
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A dozen dials : a book about sundials connected with mathematics
and its history / by Peter Ransom. Southampton : P.H. Ransom, 1998.
Env Design QB215.R36 1998
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Easy-to-make wooden sundials : instructions and plans
for five projects, with suggestions for designing your own pocket sundial
/ Milton Stoneman ; [figure illustrations by Janette Aiello]. New
York : Dover Publications, 1982.
EnvDesign QB215 .S861 1982 *c2 copies
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From sundials to atomic clocks : understanding time and
frequency /James Jespersen and Jane Fitz-Randolph. 2nd rev. ed. Mineola,
NY: Dover Publications, c2000. Includes the history of sundials and
time, illustrations, diagrams & a bibliography.
Environ Dsgn QB209.J52 1999
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Garden and hall furniture : vases, pedestals, sundials,
fonts, fountains, tables, benches, balustrades, well heads, gazing
globes and pergolas in Pompeian stone, stone and marble.
New York : Erkins Studios, [1909?].
EnvDesign NK4660 .E7 1909 Noncirculating
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Garden ornaments : gazebos, sundials, fences, benches,
gates, sculpture, sources. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn
Botanic Garden, 1987.
BioSci SB1 .P52 v.43:2
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The great sundial cutout book / Robert Adzema, Mablen
Jones ; photos.of the models by Rosmarie Hausherr ; ill. by the authors.
New York : Hawthorn Books, c1978.
EnvDesign QB215 .A39
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Greek and Roman sundials / Sharon L. Gibbs. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1976.
Main Q125.A1 Y25 v.11
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Helio-tropes; or, New posies for sundials, written
in an old book partly in English and partly in Latin and expounded in English
by John Parmenter, 1625. Edited by Perceval Landon. London, Methuen,
1904.
Main PA6164 .H
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International bibliography of gnomonica / Charles
K. Aked, Nicola Severino. West Drayton, Middlesex, England
: Exposition West Drayton, [1997].
EnvDesign QB215.A12 A38 1997 Books in Reference; disks
Perm Reserve bk. 1-2(408, [32] p.) ([1997]) + 2
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Ivory diptych sundials, 1570-1750 / Steven A. Lloyd
; with introductions by Penelope Gouk and A.J. Turner. Cambridge,
Mass. : Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University:
Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1992.
Main QB215 .H37 1992
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The ivory sundials of Nuremberg 1500-1700 / Penelope
Gouk. Cambridge, (England) : Whipple Museum of the History of Science,
1988.
EnvDesign QB215 .G68 1988 // Main QB215
.G68 1988
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Making a clock-accurate sundial : customized to your location
(for the northern hemisphere) / by Sam Muller. Happy Camp, CA : Naturegraph
Publishers, c1997.
EnvDesign QB215 .M78 1997
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Maltese sundials / by Paul I. Micallef. 1st
ed. Malta : P.I. Micallef, 1994.
EnvDesign QB215 .M47 1994
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Mechanical work in garden and greenhouse / edited
by Francis Chilton-Young. London : Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1893. Amateurs'
practical aid series.
Environ Dsgn TH4961.C45 1893 Rare
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Oxford sundials / Margaret Stanier. Oxford [England]
: Somerville College, [199-?].
EnvDesign QB215 .S725 1990z
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Scratch dials, sundials and unusual marks on Herefordshire
churches / by Richard and Catherine Botzum. Lucton, Herefordshire
: R. and C. Botzum, 1988.
EnvDesign QB215 .B65 1988
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Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct
different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles
... 3d ed. London, Strahan, 1790.
NRLF W 142 663 Request item at UCB Bancroft
Library.
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Stained glass window sundials / C. St. J.H. Daniel.
[England? : s.n. 1987?].
EnvDesign f QB215 .D3 1987
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Sundials / Christopher St J.H. Daniel. Princes
Risborough : Shire, 1986.
EnvDesign QB215 .D361 1986
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Sundials / by Kenneth Lynch ; [ill. by Andrew D. Crowell,
Sr.]. 1st ed. Canterbury, Conn. : Canterbury Pub. Co., c1971.
Series title: Architectural handbook series.
EnvDesign f QB215 .K46 1971
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Sundials and related instruments / by David J. Bryden.
Cambridge, Eng.:Whipple Museum of the History of Science, c1988. Series
title: Catalogue / Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; 6.
EnvDesign QB215 .B71 1988
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Sundials; the art and science of gnomonics [by] Frank
W. Cousins. With illus. by Malcolm Chandler. Foreword by J. G. Porter.
New York, Pica Press [1970, c1969].
Physics QB215 .C67 1970
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Sundials Australia : an explanation of how sundials work,
together with a description of some of the sundials designed and made by
Sundials Australia / [Margaret Folkard, John Ward]. Rev. and
enl. 2nd ed. Kensington Park, S. Aust. :Sundials Australia, 1996.
EnvDesign QB215 .F65 1996
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Sundials, incised dials or mass-clocks; a study of the
time-markers of medieval churches, containing descriptions, photographs,
diagrams and analysis of dials, chiefly in Hampshire, but also in various
other../ Arthur Robert Green. [London] Society for promoting Christian
knowledge; New York, Toronto, The Macmillan co., 1926.
EnvDesign QB215 .G73 copy 2 Rare *c2 copies
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Sundials & timedials / Gerald Jenkins, Magdalen
Bear. Norfolk, England :Tarquin Publications, c1987.
EnvDesign QB215 .J46 1987
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Sundials, how to know, use, and make them / R. Newton
Mayall and Margaret W. Mayall. 2d ed. Cambridge, Mass., Sky
Pub. Corp. [1973].
EnvDesign QB215 .M31 1973
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Sundials for fun / by Colin McVean. Fairford
: Timetellers, [1995?].
EnvDesign QB215 .M38 1991
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Sundials at an Oxford college / [by] Philip Pattenden.
Oxford : Roman Books, 1979.
Astr/Math QB215 .P37. EnvDesign QB215 .P371
1979
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Sundials : history, theory, and practice / Rene R.
J. Rohr ; with a foreword by Henri Michel ; translated by Gabriel Godin.
New York : Dover Publications, 1996.
EnvDesign QB215 .R613 1996 Noncirculating, also a
Rare copy.
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Sundials : the Pyghtle works, Bedford. [London]
: John P. White & Sons, 1919.
EnvDesign QB215 .S87 1919 Rare
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Sundials: their theory and construction / Albert E.
Waugh. New York, Dover Publications [1973].
EnvDesign QB215 .W38 1973. Moffitt QB215
.W38 1973 *c2 copies
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Sundials : their construction and use / R. Newton
Mayall & Margaret W. Mayall. Mineola, N.Y :Dover Pubs, 2000
EnvDesign QB215 .M33 2000
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Sundials : an illustrated history of portable dials
/ Hester Higton. London : Philip Wilson Publishers ; Wappingers Falls,
N.Y. : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Antique Collectors' Club,
2001.
EnvDesign QB215 .H543 2001
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Time's pendulum : the quest to capture time-- from sundials
to atomic clocks / Jo Ellen Barnett. New York : Plenum Trade,
c1998.
Moffitt QB209.B25 1998
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Timekeepers / F.A.B. Ward. London : H.M.S.O.
; New York, NY : Obtainable in the U.S.A. from the British Information
Services, 1963.
NRLF B 2 809 344 Type EXP NRLF for loan details.
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Time's pendulum : the quest to capture time-- from sundials
to atomic clocks / Jo Ellen Barnett. New York : Plenum Trade,
c1998.
Moffitt QB209 .B25 1998
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You take the sundials and give me the sun / David
Townsend. Alamogordo, N.M : Alamogordo Daily News, 1984 (Sun Country Printing).
Bancroft p F804.A55 T6 1984
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