| ILLUSTRATING SHADOWS focusing on education and interesting practical aspects of sundial design FREE SUPPLEMENTAL PAMPHLETS |
Sundial Sun Dial Sundials Sun Dials Design Book Books articlesspreadsheets Gnomics Gnomonics Horology Dialling Dialing Clocks EOT Equation of time Middleton Sciathics Lunar Moon
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construction hobby gnomon cutout popup building astro compass astrocompass shepherd ogee azimuth altitude hour angle
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| Book purchase options are here... |
| Dial types in perspective Jan 20, 2010, a very simple overview of the dial types and how they relate. Planispheric astrolabe Polarizing dial Glass dials Clay dials Engraved dials Inclined decliners Old wives trick North and south hemispheres Reverse engineering a dial Wall declination calculation What time was a photo taken given date and location. |
| Nocturnal dial template Astrolabe formula Equation of time notes Lunar dial plate and protractor Ecliptic dial and calendar Star clocks Ceiling or reflecting dials (also see spreadsheet) Gnomonless single armillary gnomonless May 2, 2010 Gnomonless open book dial gnomonless May 2, 2010 A short review of geometry, and 3d geometry, and trigonometry How the sun makes hour lines (pdf) The slide rule and the sundial The nomogram and the sundial Dialling scales Middleton, Foster, Serle dialling ruler |
| Free booklets are here for example Micro Shadows Simple Shadows Cubic Shadows and paper cutout dials and paper popup dials and so on |
| IBM 1401 and 7094 notes and sundial code, and links to GUI assemblers and compilers that work first time. The 360 also. |
| Also, see CASE STUDIES here. Also, the book 3 appendices are free also. |
| Illustrating Time's Shadow ISBN 0-9765286-8-1 plus 0-9765286-9-X Lib Cong 2005900674 plus 2006930654 Merges Illustrating Shadows and Illustrating More Shadows, deletes duplicated material, and techniques that are complex and replaced by easier methods, adds new material. Hands on, empirical, geometric, trigonometric, CAD, and spreadsheet dial design for small dials plus garden dials using common masonry supplies, clay, and glass, with emphasis on many calendar line techniques, and inclined decliners, while providing details on the use of DeltaCAD programming including the animation of many sheets as parameters vary. Case studies abound with associated problems solved, and cover the infamous inclined decliner, as well as all the other kinds of outdoor dials. The printed book comes with a CD of booklets, spreadsheets, VRML/WRL files, templates, etc with the printed book. The CD has all books and booklets and programs along with source code. You can get the printed book and CD, just the CD, or an online download here. |