• Editor: Mike Cowham

Published: 2005. 258 pages. Hardback

This beautiful book takes us on a journey to every corner of our Islands to visit sundials chosen by local experts. On the way we encounter fascinating buildings, stately homes, churches and beautiful scenery.

Many of us think of a sundial as an object on a pedestal in the garden but in these pages you will learn of the wide diversity of dial design and the variety of materials from which they may be constructed. The historical period covers Saxon times to the present day.

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in dials leading modern dial-makers to produce some fascinating and often innovative designs. This book is a must for anyone interested in sundials and makes a great present.

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• WHITFORD PRESS

Author: Robert Hand. Published: 1998. 606 pages. Paperback.

This book features longitudes and declinations for the sun, moon, planets, Chiron, and the Asteroids. Combining reading ease, clarity and 21st-century accuracy and precision of data, it provides a convenient reference book for astrological calculation.

• W W NORTON & CO

Author: Alan Gurney. Published: 2005. 320 pages. Paperback.

Compass chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the magnetic compass, so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by law, any man found tampering with it had his hand pinned to the mast with a dagger.

• HARCOURT BRACE

• Author: Amir Aczel
• Published: 2002
• Pages: 208 Paperback

The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of metal was suspended in water, it always pointed north.

• CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Author: Bruce Stephenson. Published: 2000. 152 pages. Hardback.

A richly illustrated and very readable account of the instruments, books, and maps astronomers have created through the ages to decipher the Universe.

• PHILIP WILSON

• Author: Gerard Turner
• Published: 2001
• Pages: 144 Hardback

• PHILIP WILSON

Author: Hester Higton. Published: 2003. 160 pages. Hardback.

An examination of the portable sundials used as timekeepers for three millennia. It is structured chronologically, with individual chapters covering particular periods of history. The focus is on the sundials themselves, but much reference is made to social, political and economic history.

• OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

• Author: James Evans
• Published: 1998
• Pages: 494 Hardback

A study of the Western astronomical tradition from ancient Babylonia to the European Renaissance, with emphasis on the Greek period. The book explores the evidence for the astronomy of the ancient past and how astronomy was practised. Emphasis is placed on the material culture of ancient astronomy.