Sundials Calendars and Timekeeping Astronomy

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.

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• The North American Sundial Society - Includes general information, links, a register of dials in North America, and a message board.
  
• Encyclopaedia Britannica - Sundials and Shadow Clocks - Animations of some of the historical stages of the development of sundials.
  
• Sunbeams & Sundials - Liverpool Museums - Guides to the use of the sun for telling time and marking the seasons.
  
• 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.
  
• Phil's Sundial Photo Gallery - Includes British and international sundials with description and exact location; sun compasses.
  
• Images of the MarsDial - The Planetary Society - Descriptions and images of the sundials carried to Mars on the Rover missions.
  
• The Sundial Primer - Get "Hooked on Gnomonics" - Offers advice, instructions, and resources for creating a wide variety of sundials.
  
• Sundial Information - Describes sundial parts and names, the basic types, and has make your own pages for three simple types of dial.
  
• Sundials on the Internet - A major information source, with projects, detailed technical information, links to related sites, listings of societies.
  
• Sundial Design Program - Software to design a vertical (wall mounting) sundial for walls that face up to 60 degrees away from due-south.
  
• Sundials - Describes the history and development in Europe from the time of the Greeks. Includes literary and poetic references.
  
• SUNDI: Sundial Design Software - Shareware and freeware software for design and planning for the most popular.
  
• Solar Time - Describes sundials that can tell sunrise and sunset times, the angle of solar declination and the time at night. (Flash based site).
  
• Sundials: the Art of Shadows - An essay on the use of sundials in gardens.
  
• Frans Maes' Sundial Site - Describes a number of sundials of different types, mostly from northern Europe.
  
• The Analemmatic Sundial - Describes design and construction of a six meter wide analemmatic sundial in Canada.
  
• Jaipur - Jantar Mantar - Describes the jantar mantar (or yantra mandir) of Jaipur, and the massive sundials and other astronomical devices built there.
  
• Sundial - Wikipedia - Account includes a description of the commoner types, and a sketchy history.
  
• Analemmatic Sundials - Descriptions of these vertical post sundials, why they work, detailed account of the maths necessary to plot the hour lines.
  
• Cadrans Solaire - 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.
  
• Scottish Sundials - Describes and illustrates dials in the country, can be searched by county, type or period of construction.
  
• A Photo Collection of Beautiful Painted Wall Sundials - Photographs with descriptions, showing a number of patterns painted on walls.
  
  

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