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| sundial plans: Sundials Albert Waugh, 2012-09-06 A rigorous appraisal of sundial science includes mathematical treatment and pertinent astronomical background, plus a nontechnical treatment so simple that several of the dials can be built by children. 106 illustrations. |
| sundial plans: Easy-to-make Wooden Sundials Milton Stoneman, 1982-03-01 This guide to making wooden sundials gently leads beginning diallists into sundial lore and construction. Novice craftsmen who can wield a saw, wood-burning pen, matte knife, sandpaper and a few other simple tools can make five different kinds of sundials; plans are flexible and allow for embellishment, alteration, variety of materials. Precalculated templates can be removed from the book and carbon-paper-transferred to wood. |
| sundial plans: The Prosciutto Sundial Christopher Charles Parslow, Robert Rich Professor of Latin Christopher Parslow, 2024 The Prosciutto Sundial is the first comprehensive study of the sundial in the shape of a miniature prosciutto from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum from its rediscovery in 1755 to modern times. Drawing on contemporary correspondence and manuscripts, early philological and scientific assessments, and later published accounts, it catalogs the many attempts by scholars and lay people alike to understand how it functioned. It explains the significance of its context in the Villa and, through the results of empirical analysis using a 3D model, highlights the remarkable accuracy of this unique ancient timepiece. |
| sundial plans: The Sundial Shirley Jackson, 2014-01-28 Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jackson’s stunningly creepy fourth novel, The Sundial When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
| sundial plans: Sundials René R.J. Rohr, 2012-09-06 Masterly account of long and colorful history of sundials, with practical instructions for building your own. Formulae, rare dials, mottoes, and much more. 104 figures. 51 plates. |
| sundial plans: Popular Science , 1981-02 Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better. |
| sundial plans: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks James Jespersen, Jane Fitz-Randolph, 1999-01-01 Clear and accessible introduction to the concept of time examines measurement, historic timekeeping methods, uses of time information, role of time in science and technology, and much more. Over 300 illustrations. |
| sundial plans: Concrete Harvey Whipple, 1919 |
| sundial plans: The Professional Design Guide to Green Roofs Lisa Lee Benjamin, Karla Dakin, Mindy Pantiel, 2013-02-04 Until recently, most green rooftop gardens were little more than variations on sedum mats on four inches of soil. Now, designers are creating cutting-edge green roofs that focus not only on critical environmental issue like heat, storm management, and ecosystem development, but also on the aesthetics, offering beautiful, livable, sustainable landscapes. The Professional Design Guide to Green Roofs is a comprehensive exploration of rooftop garden design and the process behind it. It covers everything landscape architects and garden designers need to know to create a beautiful garden in the sky. With lush photography, international examples, and solid how-to information, this is an essential resource for all design professionals. |
| sundial plans: Proceedings Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1899 |
| sundial plans: Annual Report of the Board of Education for the School Year Ending ... Cleveland (Ohio). Board of Education, 1906 |
| sundial plans: Cleveland Public Schools ... Cleveland (Ohio). Board of Education, 1906 |
| sundial plans: Annual Report , 1905 |
| sundial plans: Annual Report Cleveland (Ohio). Board of Education, 1906 |
| sundial plans: InfoWorld , 1995-11-13 InfoWorld is targeted to Senior IT professionals. Content is segmented into Channels and Topic Centers. InfoWorld also celebrates people, companies, and projects. |
| sundial plans: The Effect of the Ionosphere on Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance Systems John M. Goodman, 1988 |
| sundial plans: Katya And Cyrus Dennis Higgins, 2012-10-01 When the Callahans found Katya they soon discovered that she was the most powerful Time Pilgrim they'd ever employed at their time research facility, National. However, they soon discover she's plagued with a condition known as temporal amnesia. She can't remember what year she's from and is trying to locate her roots. Because of Katya's time displacement, she's not matured physically beyond the age of twenty, although she's much older. She becomes a sponge in every time period she visits, soaking up the culture and instantly becoming one with the period. Katya and Cyrus—the Callahans' son—develop a love interest along with a powerful time travel partnership. Before Katya came into his life, Cyrus was all business. Katya shows him that time can sometimes be traveled just for the sheer fun of it, while still trying to fight off temporal attacks by Sundial, an adversarial time organization. |
| sundial plans: Scouting , 1993-05 Published by the Boy Scouts of America for all BSA registered adult volunteers and professionals, Scouting magazine offers editorial content that is a mixture of information, instruction, and inspiration, designed to strengthen readers' abilities to better perform their leadership roles in Scouting and also to assist them as parents in strengthening families. |
| sundial plans: Popular Science , 1966-11 Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better. |
| sundial plans: Roman Portable Sundials Richard J. A. Talbert, 2017 Talbert investigates miniature sundials which can be adjusted for the owner's whereabouts. They incorporate a list of locations and latitudes for ready reference, data that offers insight into Romans' worldviews. To some perhaps, these sundials were primarily symbols of scientific awareness as well as imperial mastery of time and space. |
| sundial plans: Report on Irrigation Surveys and Inspections Canada. Irrigation Branch, 1916 |
| sundial plans: Outdoor Recreation Action United States. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, 1977 |
| sundial plans: Planning and Planting of Little Garden George Dillstone, Lawrence Weaver, 2008-12 The object of George Dillstone's 1920 work is to assist the owners of small garden plots in devising ways of laying them out so that the greatest possible use may be made of the space in the most picturesque way. |
| sundial plans: The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century David MacGibbon, Thomas Ross, 1892 |
| sundial plans: Concrete , 1919 |
| sundial plans: Solar Energy Projects for the Evil Genius Gavin D J Harper, 2007-03-08 FOLLOW THE SUN TO MORE EVIL FUN! Let the sun shine on your evil side - and have a wicked amount of fun on your way to becoming a solar energy master! In this guide, the popular Evil Genius format ramps up your understanding of powerful, important, and environmentally friendly solar energy - and shows you how to build real, practical solar energy projects you can use in your home, yard - even on the road! In Solar Energy Projects for the Evil Genius, high-tech guru Gavin Harper gives you everything you need to build more than 50 thrilling solar energy projects. You'll find complete, easy-to-follow plans, with clear diagrams and schematics, so you know exactly what's involved before you begin. Illustrated instructions and plans for 30 amazing pretested solar energy projects that assume no prior experience with energy science Explanations of the science and math behind each project Projects that progress in difficulty - from simple ones that may inspire science fair entries - all the way to converting a real home to solar energy Frustration-factor removal-needed parts are listed, along with sources-plus all the tools you'll need Solar Energy Projects for the Evil Genius provides you with complete plans, instructions, parts lists, and sources for: Crushed berries solar cell Solar death ray Solar powered hot dog cooker Solar furnace Sun-powered refrigerator Camping shower, oven, and more Hot recipes for solar cooking Water purifier Flashlight Garden lights Solar vehicle Environmentally friendly robot Much more! |
| sundial plans: The Architect & Building News , 1928 |
| sundial plans: Time and Ancient Medicine Kassandra J. Miller, 2023 Explores how the introduction of timekeeping technologies -- sundials and water clocks -- affected the practice, rhetoric, and theory of ancient medicine; and, conversely, how medical timekeeping practices affected engagement with time elsewhere in society, drawing on literary and material evidence from ancient Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. |
| sundial plans: Popular Science , 1966-10 Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better. |
| sundial plans: Healing Histories Laurie Meijer Drees, 2013 A collection of Aboriginal perspectives on the history of tuberculosis in Canada's indigenous communities and on the federal government's Indian Health Services. This book features oral accounts from patients, families, and workers who experienced Canada's Indian Hospital system. An intercultural history that models new methodologies and ethics for researching and writing about indigenous Canada based on indigenous understandings of story and its critical role in Aboriginal historicity, while moving beyond routine colonial interpretations of victimization, oppression, and cultural destruction. |
| sundial plans: The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll Richard Bisgrove, 2000-01-01 Should there be any doubt that Gertrude Jekyll was among the greatest practitioners of the art of gardening (there isn't, of course), a survey of this book will quickly confirm her almost totemic status in twentieth-century ornamental horticulture.--Wayne Winterrowd, Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening [This book] is scholarly, well-written, and based on original research. The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll is the most innovative study of the patron saint of modern gardeners since Jane Brown's pioneering Gardens of a Golden Afternoon appeared ten years ago. . . . [Bisgrove's] is the most detailed and comprehensive analysis ever made of Gertrude Jekyll's gardening.--Charles Quest-Ritson, Gardens Illustrated The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll serves as a living complement to her gardening ideas, indicating the scope and variety her gardening vision could assume. Richard Bisgrove has mined extensive archives for Jekyll's most effective planning schemes, and illustrates them with photographs of her existing gardens. He helpfully divides chapters by types of gardenincluding formal gardens, rose gardens, wild gardens, steps and walks, and sun and shade.--Ann Geneva, Literary Review Gertrude Jekyll is famous the world over as the mother of the lush English garden. . . . The stage is set for an updated revival of the Jekyll cult. Her philosophical commitment to native plants and gardens that incorporate existing heathland and woods makes her environmentally up to date.--Diana Ketcham, New York Times The most comprehensive study I have seen of the garden-making ideas of this astonishingly prolific lady . . . This is a book that can be read cover to cover -- but one to which people will refer time and again over the years.--Arthur Hellyer, Financial Times Richard Bisgrove must now be firmly established as one of our most authoritative, painstaking yet easy-to-read garden historians . . . The writing is a happy combination of scholarship and art . . . readers must be equally delighted with Andrew Lawson's magnificent photographs.--Graham Stuart Thomas, The Garden |
| sundial plans: The Sundials of Heart Island Vickie Hodge Holt, 2011-11-14 On her wedding day, Caroline receives an unexpected gift. An uninvited guest delivers a deed to Heart Island, its gardens and castles. Rodger, Caroline's husband of less than one hour, depends on his police instincts and special training to protect his wife, as they change honeymoon destinations. Following a tour guide through the castle, Caroline recognizes her own facial structures in a family photo. Under a greenhouse, in an earthen womb, a sundial is discovered. The orphanage Caroline was adopted from provided a locket, which she always wears near her heart. When the sundial reveals itself as a time-travel machine, built by her father, the locket is the key to changing the time and events. The terrorist Caszone, from THE WEAVERS, keeps his appointment arranged by FBI agents and hero-husband Rodger Calvert. Terrorists will not allow rumors about the island to trouble them. Folklore and heirs will not stop their plans. Rodger Calvert depends on his investigative skills, and those of his team, to survive his honeymoon trip, learn how to travel through time, defeat terrorists, decipher the sundial's holograms and secret codes, and become a joint heir of a heart shaped island. Some sundials read, Time began in a garden, but Caroline will discover love is timeless. |
| sundial plans: Industrial Arts Index , 1919 |
| sundial plans: House & Garden , 1921 |
| sundial plans: Architect , 1910 |
| sundial plans: The Architect and Contract Reporter , 1915 |
| sundial plans: Making Time Yulia Frumer, 2018-01-18 Variable hours in a changing society -- Towers, pillows, and graphs: variation in clock design -- Astronomical time measurement and changing conceptions of time -- Geodesy, cartography, and time measurement -- Navigation and global time -- Time measurement on the ground in Kaga domain -- Clock-makers at the crossroads -- Western time and the rhetoric of enlightenment |
| sundial plans: Your Garden and Home , 1927 Includes preliminary number dated Apr. 1927. |
| sundial plans: The Making of Chicana/o Studies Rodolfo Acuña, 2011 The Making of Chicana/o Studies traces the philosophy and historical development of the field of Chicana/o studies from precursor movements to the Civil Rights era to today, focusing its lens on the political machinations in higher education that sought to destroy the discipline. As a renowned leader, activist, scholar, and founding member of the movement to establish this curriculum in the California State University system, which serves as a model for the rest of the country, Rodolfo F. Acuña has, for more than forty years, battled the trend in academia to deprive this group of its academic presence. The book assesses the development of Chicana/o studies (an area of studies that has even more value today than at its inception)--myths about its epistemological foundations have remained uncontested. Acuña sets the record straight, challenging those in the academy who would fold the discipline into Latino studies, shadow it under the dubious umbrella of ethnic studies, or eliminate it altogether. Building the largest Chicana/o studies program in the nation was no easy feat, especially in an atmosphere of academic contention. In this remarkable account, Acuña reveals how California State University, Northridge, was instrumental in developing an area of study that offers more than 166 sections per semester, taught by 26 tenured and 45 part-time instructors. He provides vignettes of successful programs across the country and offers contemporary educators and students a game plan--the mechanics for creating a successful Chicana/o studies discipline--and a comprehensive index of current Chicana/o studies programs nationwide. Latinas/os, of which Mexican Americans are nearly seventy percent, comprise a complex sector of society projected to be just shy of thirty percent of the nation's population by 2050. The Making of Chicana/o Studies identifies what went wrong in the history of Chicana/o studies and offers tangible solutions for the future. |
| sundial plans: Popular Mechanics , 1966-11 Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle. |
Sundial - Wikipedia
The term sundial can refer to any device that uses the Sun's altitude or azimuth (or both) to show the time. Sundials are valued as decorative objects, metaphors, and objects of intrigue and …
Sundial | Definition, History, Types, & Facts | Britannica
May 26, 2025 · Sundial, the earliest type of timekeeping device, which indicates the time of day by the position of the shadow of some object exposed to the sun’s rays. As the day progresses, …
How a Sundial Works (And Why You Need One in Your Backyard)
Feb 19, 2024 · A sundial is a device used to tell time using the Sun and the movement of a specific shadow during the day. How do sundials work? The Sun casts a shadow over a …
11 Types of Sundials to Enjoy Tracking Time the Old Way
May 14, 2023 · Among the oldest scientific devices known to humankind, the different types of sundials have been around since 1500 BCE, built by some very smart members of the …
Sundial S
They handed out over 1400 of the sundial cut-outs, with the classic horizontal sundial and Briggs polar dial being the most popular. Especially important were the numerous contacts made with …
How Does A Sundial Work? - Sciencing
Sep 6, 2019 · A sundial uses the movement of the sun to keep track of time. There are several varieties, but one of the most basic consists of a thin rod or triangle -- called a gnomon -- and …
Sundials: Where Time Began - Farmers' Almanac
Nov 8, 2023 · A sundial is one of the most common decorative ornaments seen in flower gardens today, providing quiet, aesthetic beauty as it peeks out from the rose bushes and hydrangeas. …
The Invention and Evolution of Sundials - The Horology Lab
Nov 2, 2024 · A sundial operates based on the Earth’s rotation and the sun’s movement across the sky. The most essential component of a sundial is the gnomon , a stick or triangular object …
Who Invented the Sundial? The History, Key Facts and Dates
Nov 25, 2023 · When I first learned that some sundials are over 5,000 years old, dating back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, I was stunned by how long people have used sunlight and …
What is a sundial and how does a sundial work? | Twinkl
What is a sundial? A sundial is a device that can tell you what time it is depending on where the Sun casts its shadow on the sundial. A sundial is made up of two parts: a flat circular plate and …
Sundial - Wikipedia
The term sundial can refer to any device that uses the Sun's altitude or azimuth (or both) to show the time. Sundials are valued as decorative objects, metaphors, and objects of intrigue and mathematical …
Sundial | Definition, History, Types, & Facts | Britannica
May 26, 2025 · Sundial, the earliest type of timekeeping device, which indicates the time of day by the position of the shadow of some object exposed to the sun’s rays. As the day progresses, the sun moves …
How a Sundial Works (And Why You Need One in Your Backyard)
Feb 19, 2024 · A sundial is a device used to tell time using the Sun and the movement of a specific shadow during the day. How do sundials work? The Sun casts a shadow over a carefully calibrated …
11 Types of Sundials to Enjoy Tracking Time the Old Way
May 14, 2023 · Among the oldest scientific devices known to humankind, the different types of sundials have been around since 1500 BCE, built by some very smart members of the Egyptian community. …
Sundial S
They handed out over 1400 of the sundial cut-outs, with the classic horizontal sundial and Briggs polar dial being the most popular. Especially important were the numerous contacts made with teachers …
