| FREE CASE STUDIES ~ The CD with the book has these and some A 500 lb cube declining dial, 11 pages about 600k, all details start to finish. A large analemmatic garden dial. An inclining decliner. A vertical decliner neighborhood project using empirical methods, shows Italian hour lines, 5 pages, under 200k. A circular paver equatorial, a clay pipe liner armillary. The open book dial or dual gnomonless dial back to back. An almost 45 degree declining four faced cube dial. The details are complete, however extensive notes are in Illustrating Time's Shadow. |
| Illustrating Shadows (Book One) ISBN 0-9765286-8-1 Lib Cong 2005900674 Table of contents and index 230 pages of hands on, empirical, geometric, trigonometric, CAD, and spreadsheet dial design with an abbreviated appendix of charts, tables, formulae. Building small sundials using wood, PVC, and other small construction media. This book is excellent, and provides details on so many methods of dial design, tables, and so on. Covers sundial related activities. A complete appendix is free to download, or you can buy it separately in printed form. The CD with this book does have all three books in color on the CD. This book is available on the CD which has all books in full color. The book is available online for you to print locally. This is printed on demand since Illustrating Time's Shadows replaces both this book as well as Illustrating More Shadows. |
PICTURES
Page 1 ~ of the author's sundials polar, horizontal, stained glass, meridian, capuchin, shepherds, vertical, durer, globe, cube,
decliners, inclined decliners, armillary, equatorial, etc. (concrete, glass, copper) - outside or long lasting. Typical of book 2 dials.
Page 2 (PVC, wood) - fine detail yet less weather proof. Typical of book 1 dials.
Page 3 artistic photos of the dials in book 2. Some are rather interesting or amusing. Some bad weather (snow) pictures.
Page 4 Some of the author's stained glass non sundial work.
And some 3d JPG pics also just for fun.
Page 1 ~ of the author's sundials polar, horizontal, stained glass, meridian, capuchin, shepherds, vertical, durer, globe, cube,
decliners, inclined decliners, armillary, equatorial, etc. (concrete, glass, copper) - outside or long lasting. Typical of book 2 dials.
Page 2 (PVC, wood) - fine detail yet less weather proof. Typical of book 1 dials.
Page 3 artistic photos of the dials in book 2. Some are rather interesting or amusing. Some bad weather (snow) pictures.
Page 4 Some of the author's stained glass non sundial work.
And some 3d JPG pics also just for fun.
| This website and its free books, booklets, programs, case studies, take a lot of effort to design, build, and maintain. If you like what you see, please buy the books online ($10), or the CD ($20 or $25), or the printed book Illustrating Time's Shadow. For example, the DeltaCAD macro for the astrolabe was a first in astrolabe programming in that you get the source code and explanatory notes, and it took hundreds of hours, and it is free to you. Pieces have been published before, but this web site was the first to show in a very few pages the complete geometric derivation, the complete trigonometric derivation, and the actual complete construction of a planispheric astrolabe. Now others have and still are following my lead! Even my spreadsheets support the astrolabe. The books and CD provide the incentive for further development. And help when I teach classes on sundials at the local university |
ABBREVIATIONS: h-dial (horizontal), v-dial (vertical), m-dial (meridian dial), p-dial (polar dial), q-dial (equatorial dial), z (azimuth), s-dial (shepherd
dial), a-dial (astrolabe), n-dial (nocturnal dial), d (declination curves), and, inc: incliners and dec: decliners, and -a if animated (which some DeltaCAD,
Euler, and Scilab programs do). SUNDIAL PARTS: are here with explanations (for the common horizontal sun dial (nodus, style sub-style, gnomon, dial
plate, etc).
dial), a-dial (astrolabe), n-dial (nocturnal dial), d (declination curves), and, inc: incliners and dec: decliners, and -a if animated (which some DeltaCAD,
Euler, and Scilab programs do). SUNDIAL PARTS: are here with explanations (for the common horizontal sun dial (nodus, style sub-style, gnomon, dial
plate, etc).
| Illustrating Time's Shadow ~ 380 pages ~ $40 + s&h ~ Book Three The appendices are included free as a separate printed book of 150 pages This book merges books 1 and 2, re-sequences them , deletes lesser used duplicate options, adds new material, see above on this page. |
| ILLUSTRATING SHADOWS ~ ~ a journey of discovery ~ ~ sundials ~ ~ and how to make them ~ ~ ~ as well as how to use, or make, the things that can help design them ~ |
| July 4, 2009 |
| MY BOOK IS FOR SALE EVERYTHING ELSE IS FREE ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All 3 books online ~ $10 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All 3 books on CD $20 USA $25.00 outside USA ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Upgrade/replace full CD $12.50 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Illustrating Time's Shadow $40 or $35 NASS/BSS, + s&h replaces Illustrating Shadows plus Illustrating More Shadows ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Illustrating Shadows $30+s&h ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Illustrating More Shadows $30+s&h ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Printed appendices $15+s&h ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ one button click PayPal buttons are here |
| The printed books come with a CD of CAD, pdf, xls, vrml, animations, software, and so on. It also has the three books in full color in pdf. |
| FREE BOOKS AND BOOKLETS (if you like this site's items, buy the CD!) |
| Changes and Updates to books, booklets, software, and the web site |
| Except for the printed books, CD and online books, everything is free. Largest collection of sundial software in more systems and languages and written by me, code is open source. |
| WHAT YOU MAY PURCHASE TO HELP YOU (and the web site!) ~ ~ ~ and by the way, everything else is free |
| see PDA page |
| FREE SUNDIAL PROGRAMS and FREE SOFTWARE ~ ~ ~ ~ in many systems and many computer languages |
| see paper popups |
| see cubic dials |
| see stained glass |
| DeltaCAD macros |
| TurboCAD vbs, ppm |
| EXCEL ~ main and EOT also Open Office Documents To Go Dont use Excel in Open Office or vice versa |
| CREDIT CARD but no PayPal account?? click PayPal here and you can enter a credit card which I WILL NEVER SEE. But I do get the funds. PAY BY CHECK?? check the costs on this PayPal page, and email me for the payee and mailing address. |
| WHAT KIND OF SUNDIAL SHOULD YOU BUILD ~ ~ ~ ~ Before you build a sundial, decide what kind is best. Latitudes between the equator and about 15 degrees N or S would benefit from an equatorial (q) or polar (p) dial more than from a horizontal (h) dial design. On the equator a horizontal (h-dial) is a polar dial so use a p-dial design. At the poles, an h-dial is an equatorial dial, so use a q-dial design ~ run the DeltaCAD h-dial for latitude 85 for fun, it approaches the q-dial. |
| Hour angle dials can be designed using geometry (see picture to the right), which in turn is convertible to trigonometry (see the spreadsheets (Excel) and all the programming languages for which this website has sundial programs including CAD: DeltaCAD, TurboCAD, and ProgeCAD, and JAVA and Visual Basic and even the old legacy languages. Scientific code exists for Octave, Scliab, and Euler, as well. Illustrating Time's Shadow covers all this. All the TurboCAD files for this are here including the VBS and the newer pse/ppm scripts and usage notes. DeltaCAD macros see here, and all sorts of free software I wrote is here. |
| Jaipur observatory in 3d vrml, you can walk around it, needs the Cortona Plugin, this works on Vista win64 although Cortona may crash the first time. |
| SUNDIAL BUYERS BEWARE ~ ~ Before you buy a sundial click here and check here for two guides, and also for my "What sundials not to buy", photos & notes, please give to any and all. And "What to do now you bought it" |
| click here for old fashioned stereogram of the picture tp the right |
| Microsoft Office Main xls EOT xls Open Office main and EOT Palm Pilot PDA xls & prc |
| Online dial design ~ ~ NASS JAVA dials ~ ~ ~ or try one of the many software systems in many computer languages on this web site, including IBM 1401, 7094, and 360 simulators with h and v dial programs. |
| Spreadsheets [notes] |
| Legacy computers with GUI simulators and sundial programs. |
| Legacy languages |
| Recent languages |
| Scientific languages |
| Newer language systems |
| CAD language systems |
download MICRO SHADOWS if you use these programs, it explains how to build a dial
| Illustrating More Shadows (Book Two) ISBN 0-9765286-9-X Lib Cong 2006930654 Table of contents and index 280 pages on glass, concrete, and clay dials,3d CAD (TurboCAD), DeltaCAD programming, recliners, decliners, inclined decliners (lots of stuff here), each with their own chapters, and calendar curves, etc. Includes an abbreviated appendix of charts, tables, formulae. The ideal book to follow Illustrating Shadows if you already have it. The book is available via PayPal, and the CD has all the usual stuff, plus Illustrating Shadows (Book 1), Illustrating More Shadows (Book 2) and Illustrating Time's Shadow (Book 3). This book rapidly reviews Illustrating Shadows. Astrolabe design is geometically and trigonometrically covered, and programming techniques for many languages and systems. A complete appendix is free to download, or you can buy it separately in print form. Printed copies are reserved for those who already have Illustrating Shadows (book 1), and since Illustrating Shadows and Illustrating More Shadows are replaced by Illustrating Time's Shadow, all others should get book 3 "Illustrating Time's Shadow" This book is available on the CD which has all books in full color. The book is available online for you to print locally. This is printed on demand, typically for people who have book 1 |
| Windows VISTA page explains what works, or how to make it work, DeltaCAD, PalmPilot synch, etc. |
| Virtual Reality sundials ~ ~ Check this rewritten page on how to see sundial observatories and sundials themselves in user manipulatable virtual reality. It tells you how to download the free Cortona web browser plug-in. |
| PAYPAL and prices with shipping costs |
sundial building making how build make astrolabe deltacad turbocad gnomonics clay stained glass eot scilab octave euler LISP progecad legacy programming excel spreadsheet pse parametric script VBS fortran cobol pascal vrml basic IBM1401 IBM7094 SPS FORTRAN
| Illustrating Time's Shadow ~ 380 printed pages plus the big CD ~ $40 + s&h This is book Three, which replaces Illustrating Shadows together with Illustrating More Shadows The appendices are included free as a separate printed book of 150 pages ( Let me know if you want three hole punch as opposed to normal spiral ) This book merges Illustrating Shadows (book 1) and Illustrating More Shadows (book 2) content, re-sequenced, while adding new material and dropping some lesser used duplicative methods. Small portable and large garden dials are covered, and multiple media such as PVC, wood, paper, concrete, copper, glass, and clay. Summaries on programming various systems and languages, and two CAD systems. The book itself is available as a 24mb approx download - free to download if you acquired books 1 and 2 on CD or online, use the same userid/password you were given for books 1 and 2. If your userid/password expired, email me for a new set. For more details, see the descriptions for book 1 and book 2 below. Check the table of contents here. The printed book and printed appendices come with a CD with the original books (Illustrating Shadows and Illustrating More Shadows) as well as Illustrating Time's Shadow, and all the many programs and extras. This book is available on CD as well as online and you print it locally ~ the CD and online option has all books in full color. This book is available printed and includes free the printed book of appendices. The Appendices in full are also downloadable for free |
| NOTE: books 1 and 2 are printed on demand (2 day turnaround) |
| NOTE: Illustrating Time's Shadows, book 3, replaces both books 1 and 2 |
| Details of Open Office spreadsheets |
| Details of other programs |
| Details of free booklets |
| Details of Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets |
| Book 1 and 2 updates |
| Details of free books |
| Pictures and details of my computer programs & output |
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| Appendices free download |
| Book 2 online download |
| Book 1 online download |
| Book 3 online download |
| First email received on July 4, 2009 after 12 noon mst daylight saving time gets one free online download of book 1, Illustrating Shadows. This expires at 1pm mst daylight saving. Userid and password will be sent around 5pm mst dst. |