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Updates from European sundial societies, discussing exhibitions, society meetings, and sundial innovations, including notes on instruments, moon phases, and dipleidoscopes.
A report on a regional BSS meeting in Essex featuring talks, member displays, and local sundial visits, highlighting community involvement and enthusiasm for sundial-related activities.
The BSS and Members
Describes the creation of a complex obelisk-style sundial at Dunphail House, including its design, multiple dial faces, symbolic engravings, and historical inspirations from Scottish traditions.
Construction Projects, Dials: Multi Faced
Commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Hydrographic Office with the unveiling of a specially commissioned horizontal sundial, exploring its design, construction, and maritime symbolism.
Dials: Horizontal
Examines the features and design variations of historical portable sundials, discussing integrated instruments, storage cases, and accessories like compasses and perpetual calendars.
Dialling Tools, Dials: Portable, Historical Dials
A personal travelogue documenting sundials discovered in Canada, Australia, and Singapore, including armillary and equatorial dials, with notes on design inspiration and memorial contexts.
Dials: Equatorial
A description of a meridian line installed in Ramsgate, covering its construction, timekeeping function, and local educational significance.
Dials: Noon Lines, Sundial Design & Layout
A search for a sundial mentioned in the writings of poet William Cowper, blending literary investigation with sundial history and field research.
Historical Dials
Reflections on historic sundials mentioned in Arthur Mee’s ‘The King’s England’, with commentary on their cultural and historical context.
Historical Dials
An analytical discussion of the sundial-like instrument depicted in Dürer’s ‘Melancholia I’, considering artistic interpretation and gnomonic function.
Dials: Unusual