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Other Sundial Societies Worldwide
Austria: Gnomonicae Societas Austriaca (GSA)
Belgium: Zonnewijzerkring Vlaanderen Notable for the Genk sundial park.
Birkenau: Sundials in Birkenau, Germany – the village holding the world record for the highest density of sundials.
Canada: La Commission des Cadrans solaires du Québec
France: See “Commission des Cadrans Solaires” in Société Astronomique de France
Italy: See “Quadranti Solari” in Unione Astrofili Italiani
Japan: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/sundial/hidokei/index.html
Netherlands: The Dutch Sundial Society De Zonnewijzerkring (Web site in English and Dutch)
Poland: A very active group of sundial enthusiasts gnomonika.pl (Web site in Polish)
Spain: Asociación de Amigos de los Relojes de Sol, also Societat Catalana de Gnomònica
Switzerland: Sonnenuhrenfreunde beider Basel
USA: The North American Sundial Society
The Web site carries many photographs and much general information about dialling and has a forum at http://sundials.org/sunfor where you can get your questions answered.
The Planetary Society sponsors the EarthDial project which links up sundials all over the world to Webcams that you can view on their Web site. See details of the Mars Dials (the first sundials in space) there, too.
Sundial-Related Organisations in the UK
The Antiquarian Horological Society (AHS) is a learned society formed in 1953. It exists as a charity to encourage the study of all matters relating to the art and history of time measurement, to foster and disseminate original research, and to encourage the preservation of examples of the horological and allied arts.
The British Horological Institute is concerned with maintaining standards of horology in this country by training and testing clock and watch makers and repairers. While originally founded to support and represent the trade, most of its members now are amateurs, including sundial makers.
The Clockmakers’ Company (The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of London, in full) is the London livery company for sundial makers as well as clockmakers and welcomes sundial makers throughout the country.
The Ecclesiological Society
A society going back to 1839 which studies churches. With the enormous number of dials on church property, there is an obvious overlap.
The Royal Astronomical Society, based at Burlington House, with which the British Sundial Society is affiliated. Members should note that this gives them reciprocal rights to use one another’s libraries.
The Society for the History of Astronomy, founded in June 2002 as the UK’s national society specialising in the history of that great science. The Society’s Survey of the Astronomical Geography of the UK is already shedding light on the undiscovered local history of astronomy in all regions and at all levels.
Other Major Web Sites and Forums
The Sundial Mailing List
Serving the whole Internet dialling community and maintained by Daniel Roth. See https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial for details.
Mail is archived at www.mail-archive.com/sundial@uni-koeln.de .
Daniel also has a huge list of links.
Sundials on the Internet
A primary source of information about all aspects of sundials. Maintained by Internetworks Ltd of Epsom, England. www.sundials.co.uk
http://stainedglasssundials.com
John Carmichael’s stained glass sundials site.
https://www.shadowspro.com
Shadows by François Blateyron.
Gnomonica,
Nichola Severino’s site (mostly in Italian), home of the International Gnomonic Bulletin
Other Links
Royal Observatory Greenwich: Timekeeping factfiles including many sundial-related topics.
Illustrating Shadows by Simon Wheaton-Smith includes downloadable artwork, DeltaCAD design macros and a guide to What Not To Buy.
The Sundial Primer on Carl Sabanski’s Web site includes sundial kits, including some you can download and make in card, presentations and purchasing and constructional tips. This site also hosts a Sundial Forum
Solar Ephemerides
Current Data on the NASS Website
Mean Solar values at 1200 GMT for 21st century
JPL’s Horizons system gives every value you could ask for to incredible accuracy
www.aho.ch/pilotplanets
A Hofer’s fantastic Planetarium for Palm PDAs
Solar Calculator – Great Circle Studio. Interactive Web site
SOLARIUM by Pierre J Dallet (4.4MB downloadable Zip file. In French)
home.comcast.net/~jonsachs/
Jonathan Sachs’s Ephemeris for Pocket PC (380KB dowload)
Queens’ College Cambridge – Sundial
The proposed Solar Pyramid – the largest modern sundial in the world.
Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford has perhaps the best sundial collection in the world.
Royal Observatory Greenwich has wonderful astrolabes and many fine sundials . See Collections.
The Clockmakers’ Company Museum
National Museum of Science & Industry includes the Science Museum
Software (Freeware or Shareware)
Dialist’s Companion published by NASS
EquaDecl by Fer de Vries
Orologi Solari by Gian Casalegno
Shadows by François Blateyron.
Sonne and Alemma by Helmut Sonderegger
Sundial Align by Bill Gottesman
http://www.sunshadow.co.uk/
low cost design software for wall mounted dials, up to 60 degrees from south.
ZW2000 (also called Zonwvlak) and EquaDecl by Fer de Vries (or click on Links, then Downloads from his home page).
Research Tools
Britannica.com
A Polish site (text in Polish, but is being translated into English) at www.gnomonica.com
Mike Shaw’s site has added information on Pilkington and Gibbs Heliochronometers.
John Carmichael has a Web site for Painted Wall Sundials, and another dedicated to Stained Glass Sundials
Sundials of Scotland (and other places)
Sundials in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Lucio Maria Morra makes exquisite mural sundials
Flickr has over 22000 photographs of sundials
Karl Schwarzinger has pictures, descriptions and explanations of many sundials in Austria and elsewhere on his site here.
Peter Lindner has hundreds of pictures of sundials in Germany, indexed by place name.
When Time Began: The History and Science of Sundials on the Timecenter scheduling software site includes useful information and links.
Clocks Magazine , monthly, for clock collectors, repairers and makers worldwide
Longnow. A project to create a clock to run for 10,000 years
A Sundial that you can buy with proceeds going to charity
AECPORTICO is a leading information web portal for the UK construction industry.
Abacus Construction Index is a directory of recommended online resources for UK architects, engineers and other construction professionals.
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