Description: ‘Tis nothing but a magic Shadow-show, Play’d in a box whose candle is the Sun. - Omar Khayyam. This is the second in a series of books bringing together articles by Fred Sawyer on the history and theory of dialing. The current book covers 1995-1999. Extreme Hours Of Sunlight, Designing A Nocturnal, Universal Horizontal Dialfaces, Atmospheric Refraction, A Polyhedral Addendum, Canterbury Shadows, Geographic Sundials, A Portable Astroid Dial, William Oughtred's Double Horizontal Dial, Emerson's Quest, Shadow Plane Addendum, Emerson's Quandary, Some Secret Motion Of The Earth, A Memorable Birthday Celebration, Hauxley's Challenge, From Dial To Declination, Samuel Foster Of Gresham College, Towards A General Theory Of Dialing Scales, A Vertical Decliner By Dialing Scales And Schema, Nicole's Sunset, Herbert's Correction, Ptolemaic Coordinate Sundials, The Cycloid Polar Sundial, Kratzer's Layout, Prosthaphaeresis, The Six Tags Experience, Conference Presentations.
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Author: Frederick Sawyer
Book Title: A Magic Shadow-Show
Language: English
Topic: dialing, dialling, sundials, fwsawyer, sciatherics, Science & Med
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Frederick Sawyer
Genre: Science & Medicine
Publication Year: 2020
Original Language: English
