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Sundials on the Internet
A major information source, with projects, detailed technical information, links to related sites, listings of societies.
http://www.sundials.co.uk/
Sundials
Describes the history of sundials, and their development in Europe from the time of the Greeks. Includes literary and poetic references.
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/sundials.h...
Analemmatic Sundials
Descriptions of these vertical post sundials, why they work, detailed account of the maths necessary to plot the hour lines.
http://plus.maths.org/issue11/features/sun...
Sundial Design Program
Software to design a vertical (wall mounting) sundial for walls that face up to 60 degrees away from due-south.
http://www.sunshadow.co.uk
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.
http://web.fc-net.fr/frb/sundials/defautgb...
Phil's Sundial Photo Gallery
Includes British and international sundials with description and exact location; sun compasses.
http://www.sundial.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Gardens Guide
An essay on the use of sundials in gardens.
http://www.gardenvisit.com/t/city_as_l/gd_...
Sundial Information
Describes sundial parts and names, the basic types, and has make your own pages for three simple types of dial.
http://home.netcom.com/~abraxas2/sun.htm
Solar Time
Heiner Thiessen designs Sundials that can tell the time of Ssunrise and Sunset and tell the angle of Solar declination and even the time at night. This site shows how they work.
http://www.solardials.com
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.
http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/
The Analemmatic Sundial
Describes design and construction of a six meter wide analemmatic sundial in Canada.
http://www.steveirvine.com/sundial.html
The North American Sundial Society
Includes general information, links, a register of dials in North America, and a message board.
http://sundials.org/
Sundials in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
On-line catalogue, with facilities for search, adding records, map, statistics, articles and references.
http://au23.troja.mff.cuni.cz/~mira/sh/sh....
SUNDI - Sundial Design Software
Shareware / freeware software for design and planning of the most popular dials.
http://members.kabsi.at/i.krastev/astro/su...
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