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A Photo Collection of Beautiful Painted Wall Sundials - http://advanceassociates.com/WallDial/PWS_Home.html
Photographs with descriptions, showing a number of patterns painted on walls.

Analemmatic Sundials - http://plus.maths.org/issue11/features/sundials/
Descriptions of these vertical post sundials, why they work, detailed account of the maths necessary to plot the hour lines.

Cadrans Solaire - http://pagesperso-orange.fr/blateyron/sundials/gb/
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.

Encyclopaedia Britannica - Sundials and Shadow Clocks - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-60367
Animations of some of the historical stages of the development of sundials.

Frans Maes' Sundial Site - http://www.fransmaes.nl/zonnewijzers/welcome-e.htm
Describes a number of sundials of different types, mostly from northern Europe.

Images of the MarsDial - The Planetary Society - http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/marsdial/images.html
Descriptions and images of the sundials carried to Mars on the Rover missions.

Jaipur - Jantar Mantar - http://www.bomhard.de/englisch/jaipur/00.html
Describes the jantar mantar (or yantra mandir) of Jaipur, and the massive sundials and other astronomical devices built there.

Phil's Sundial Photo Gallery - http://www.sundial.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Includes British and international sundials with description and exact location; sun compasses.

Scottish Sundials - http://www.scottishsundials.co.uk/
Describes and illustrates dials in the country, can be searched by county, type or period of construction.

Solar Time - http://www.solardials.com
Describes sundials that can tell sunrise and sunset times, the angle of solar declination and the time at night. (Flash based site).

Sunbeams & Sundials - Liverpool Museums - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/
Guides to the use of the sun for telling time and marking the seasons.

SUNDI: Sundial Design Software - http://members.kabsi.at/i.krastev/sundi/
Shareware and freeware software for design and planning for the most popular.

Sundial - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial
Account includes a description of the commoner types, and a sketchy history.

Sundial Design Program - http://www.sunshadow.co.uk
Software to design a vertical (wall mounting) sundial for walls that face up to 60 degrees away from due-south.

Sundial Information - http://home.netcom.com/~abraxas2/sun.htm
Describes sundial parts and names, the basic types, and has make your own pages for three simple types of dial.

Sundials - http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/sundials.html
Describes the history and development in Europe from the time of the Greeks. Includes literary and poetic references.

Sundials on the Internet - http://www.sundials.co.uk/
A major information source, with projects, detailed technical information, links to related sites, listings of societies.

Sundials: the Art of Shadows - http://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/garden_landscape_design_articles/garden_design_ideas/sundials_art_shadows_landscape
An essay on the use of sundials in gardens.

The Analemmatic Sundial - http://www.steveirvine.com/sundial.html
Describes design and construction of a six meter wide analemmatic sundial in Canada.

The British Sundial Society - http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/
Information on the society, links, beginner's pages, including simple sundial patterns and templates, online facilities to calculate hour lines for different sundial types.

The North American Sundial Society - http://sundials.org/
Includes general information, links, a register of dials in North America, and a message board.

The Sundial Primer - Get "Hooked on Gnomonics" - http://www.mysundial.ca/tsp/tsp.html
Offers advice, instructions, and resources for creating a wide variety of sundials.

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