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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

 
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    LINKS
  • The Analemma- The figure-8 path that the sun makes in the sky is called the analemma.
      • http://www.analemma.com/
  • CREST - Solstice, the Sun's Joules clickable images includes photovoltaics.
      • http://www.repp.org/solar/index.html
  • 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. 
      • http://www.pge.com/003_save_energy/003c_edu_train/pec/tour/heliodon.shtml
  • The Mars Sundial
    • http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990428.html
  • The North American Sundial Society - include publications, links, conference information.
      • http://sundials.org/
  • 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/
  • Sundials on the Internet - includes technical information, books, etc.
      • http://www.sundials.co.uk/index.htm
    BOOKS
  1. Alt-Augsburger Kompassmacher; Sonnen-, Mond- und Sternuhren,  astronomische und mathematische Gerate, Raderuhren. Augsburg, H. Rosler.  [1966]. 
      2. NRLF  B 4 250 954 Type EXP NRLF for loan details.
  2. NEW - 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.
      3. Environ Dsgn QB215.S285 2004  Permanent Reserve. On 2 hour reserve
  3. The art of sundial construction /by Peter I. Drinkwater. 2nd ed. Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, Eng.: P. Drinkwater, 1987.
      4. EnvDesign QB215 .D75 1987
  4. 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. 
      5. EnvDesign QB215 .G3 1889 Rare // Main QB215 .G3 1889 also EnvDesign QB215 .G3 1900a
  5. 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]. 
      6. EnvDesign QB215 .B6 1917 Rare
  6. Cambridge sundials / [Alexis Brookes, Margaret Stanier].  [England : s.n., between 1988 and 1998] (Cambridge : Pendragon Press). 
      7. EnvDesign QB215 .B69 1988
  7. A celebration of Cornish sundials / Carolyn Martin ; illustrations by Tessa Fearnley.  Trewolsta, Trewirgie : Dyllansow Truran, 1994.
      8. EnvDesign QB215 .M306 1994
  8. A choice of sundials / Winthrop W. Dolan. Brattleboro, Vt.: S. Greene Press, [1975]. 
      9. EnvDesign QB215 .D63 1975
  9. A dozen dials : a book about sundials connected with mathematics and its history / by Peter Ransom. Southampton : P.H. Ransom, 1998. 
      10. Env Design QB215.R36 1998
  10. 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. 
      11. EnvDesign QB215 .S861 1982 *c2 copies
  11. 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.
      12. Environ Dsgn QB209.J52 1999
  12. 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?]. 
      13. EnvDesign NK4660 .E7 1909 Noncirculating
  13. Garden ornaments : gazebos, sundials, fences, benches, gates, sculpture, sources. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1987.
      14. BioSci  SB1 .P52 v.43:2
  14. 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.
      15. EnvDesign QB215 .A39
  15. Greek and Roman sundials / Sharon L. Gibbs. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. 
      16. Main Q125.A1 Y25 v.11
  16. 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. 
      17. Main PA6164 .H
  17. International bibliography of gnomonica / Charles K. Aked, Nicola  Severino.  West Drayton, Middlesex, England : Exposition West Drayton, [1997]. 
      18. EnvDesign QB215.A12 A38 1997 Books in Reference; disks Perm Reserve bk. 1-2(408, [32] p.) ([1997]) + 2
  18. 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. 
      19. Main QB215 .H37 1992
  19. The ivory sundials of Nuremberg 1500-1700 / Penelope Gouk.  Cambridge, (England) : Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1988. 
      20. EnvDesign QB215 .G68 1988  // Main  QB215 .G68 1988
  20. Making a clock-accurate sundial : customized to your location (for the northern hemisphere) / by Sam Muller. Happy Camp, CA : Naturegraph Publishers, c1997. 
      21. EnvDesign QB215 .M78 1997
  21. Maltese sundials / by Paul I. Micallef.  1st ed.  Malta : P.I. Micallef, 1994.
      22. EnvDesign QB215 .M47 1994
  22. Mechanical work in garden and greenhouse  / edited by Francis Chilton-Young. London : Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1893. Amateurs' practical aid series. 
      23. Environ Dsgn TH4961.C45 1893  Rare
  23. Oxford sundials / Margaret Stanier.  Oxford [England] : Somerville College, [199-?]. 
      24. EnvDesign QB215 .S725 1990z
  24. Scratch dials, sundials and unusual marks on Herefordshire churches / by Richard and Catherine Botzum.  Lucton, Herefordshire : R. and C. Botzum, 1988.
      25. EnvDesign QB215 .B65 1988
  25. Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct different clocks,  orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles ...  3d ed.  London,  Strahan, 1790. 
      26. NRLF  W 142 663 Request item at UCB Bancroft Library.
  26. Stained glass window sundials / C. St. J.H. Daniel.  [England? : s.n. 1987?]. 
      27. EnvDesign f QB215 .D3 1987
  27. Sundials / Christopher St J.H. Daniel.  Princes Risborough :  Shire, 1986. 
      28. EnvDesign QB215 .D361 1986
  28. Sundials / by Kenneth Lynch ; [ill. by Andrew D. Crowell, Sr.].  1st ed. Canterbury, Conn. : Canterbury Pub. Co., c1971.  Series title:  Architectural handbook series. 
      29. EnvDesign f QB215 .K46 1971
  29. 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. 
      30. EnvDesign QB215 .B71 1988
  30. 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]. 
      31. Physics   QB215 .C67 1970
  31. 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. 
      32. EnvDesign QB215 .F65 1996
  32. 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.
      33. EnvDesign QB215 .G73 copy 2 Rare *c2 copies
  33. Sundials & timedials / Gerald Jenkins, Magdalen Bear.  Norfolk, England :Tarquin Publications, c1987. 
      34. EnvDesign QB215 .J46 1987
  34. Sundials, how to know, use, and make them / R. Newton Mayall and Margaret W. Mayall.  2d ed.  Cambridge, Mass., Sky Pub. Corp. [1973]. 
      35. EnvDesign QB215 .M31 1973
  35. Sundials for fun / by Colin McVean.  Fairford : Timetellers, [1995?].
      36. EnvDesign QB215 .M38 1991
  36. Sundials at an Oxford college / [by] Philip Pattenden.  Oxford : Roman Books, 1979. 
      37. Astr/Math QB215 .P37.  EnvDesign QB215 .P371 1979
  37. Sundials : history, theory, and practice / Rene R. J. Rohr ; with a foreword by Henri Michel ; translated by Gabriel Godin.  New York : Dover Publications, 1996. 
      38. EnvDesign QB215 .R613 1996 Noncirculating, also a Rare copy.
  38. Sundials : the Pyghtle works, Bedford.  [London] : John P. White & Sons, 1919. 
      39. EnvDesign QB215 .S87 1919 Rare
  39. Sundials: their theory and construction / Albert E. Waugh.  New York, Dover Publications [1973]. 
      40. EnvDesign QB215 .W38 1973. Moffitt   QB215 .W38 1973 *c2 copies
  40. Sundials : their construction and use / R. Newton Mayall & Margaret W. Mayall. Mineola, N.Y :Dover Pubs, 2000
      41. EnvDesign QB215 .M33 2000
  41. 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. 
      42. EnvDesign QB215 .H543 2001
  42. Time's pendulum : the quest to capture time-- from sundials to atomic clocks / Jo Ellen Barnett.  New York : Plenum Trade, c1998. 
      43. Moffitt QB209.B25 1998
  43. 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. 
      44. NRLF  B 2 809 344 Type EXP NRLF for loan details.
  44. Time's pendulum : the quest to capture time-- from sundials to atomic clocks / Jo Ellen Barnett.  New York : Plenum Trade, c1998. 
      45. Moffitt QB209 .B25 1998
  45. You take the sundials and give me the sun / David Townsend. Alamogordo, N.M : Alamogordo Daily News, 1984 (Sun Country Printing). 
      46. Bancroft  p F804.A55 T6 1984
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