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The British Sundial Society Chris Williams David Brown Jen Brown Bill Visick www.sundialsoc.org.uk Greek and Roman Sundials Chris Williams Sun path Stick shadow Typical Dials Forum Stadium Theatre Making a Hemicyclium dial David Brown


  1. The British Sundial Society Chris Williams David Brown Jen Brown Bill Visick www.sundialsoc.org.uk

  2. Greek and Roman Sundials Chris Williams

  3. Sun path

  4. Stick shadow

  5. Typical Dials

  6. Forum

  7. Stadium

  8. Theatre

  9. Making a Hemicyclium dial David Brown

  10. Theatre of Dianysos, Athens

  11. Sun's path

  12. Example dials

  13. Antonini

  14. Calasparra restaurato

  15. Pompei menandro prima

  16. Augusta Raurica sundial

  17. Pompei foro

  18. Pompei foro

  19. Horniman

  20. Modern Hemicyclium Dial

  21. 1998 Christ Church

  22. The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions. When I was a boy, My belly was my sun-dial; one more sure, Truer, and more exact than any of them. This Dial told me when I had aught to eat, But now-a-days, why, even when I have, I can’t fall-to, unless the sun give leave. The town’s so full of these confounded dials, The greatest part of its inhabitants, Shrunk up with hunger, creep along the streets. Maccius Plautus (c.250 – 184 BC)

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