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# Sundials: Their Theory and Construction

**Brand:** albert waugh
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    For the dial-builder
  

*by W***D on Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2004*

No other book, as far as I know, gives such clear detail about making your own sundials. That word seems so narrow; Waugh covers much more of solar time-telling than just dials. One thing that amazes me is his passion. He writes with clear pride about his own sundials, good to within (he says) ten seconds!This book covers graphical or analytic techniques for laying out sundials on just about any surface that doesn't move, horizontal, vertical (facing any direction), slanted, or even the ceiling. He also discusses the movable kind, like a "shepherd's dial". It has nothing inherently to do with sheep, but can be used anywhere, even without knowing true north.The historian may be disappointed. This is not a catalogue of sundials through the ages, although bits of history are scattered throughout. In one sense, though, this is a view into the time of its writing (1973). A modern reader, with access to modern calculators and computers, will be amused if not puzzled by some of tricks used to make hand computation more feasible. I don't know anyone any more who multiplies by adding logs, and the circumlocutions around negative logarithms look positively quaint. The only real flaw in this book is its systematic omission of half the world: the southern hemispehere. It wouldn't have been so hard to add just a paragraph or two about sundials that work "backwards".Although this book celebrates the craft and art that can go into a sundial, its real value is technical. This book gives the essential methods for the functional side of a solar time-piece; bring your own artistry.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A good single-source book
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2015*

I bought this book and one by Milton Stoneman (Easy to Make Sundials – Dover Books) because I had a casual interest in sundials and their construction. I'm not a mathematician, astronomer or a serious scientist, so the technical side isn't as important to me. I did want to better understand how sundials work and get some ideas about their construction.This book is more advanced than the book by Stoneman.  There is significantly more technical information and more of the math to improve the accuracy of your sundials.  As I said, I’m not a mathematician and the math in this book is still within my grasp.  While I felt the Stoneman book was written and presented to be within reach of the average mortal, this book is at a higher level and certainly satiated my desire for understanding sundials.  If you understand and learn everything in this book, you’ll be the local sundial expert, provided you don’t live next door to the university PhDs.I liked the book and it was as good as I expected. The book goes beyond the basic theory of sundials and gives some information on projects. This clearly is a stand-alone book but I'm glad I also bought the Stoneman book as a companion purchase. The two books combined were pretty much what I was looking for.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Delivery time was great.
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2023*

Driver just threw the item away to front porch.Lucky it was a book but if it were something fragile it could break it.

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