Over 15 Years of The Compendium

Four times a year since 1994 The North American Sundial Society has published The Compendium.  Below is the Table of Contents for all issues of The Compendium.  You may get a CD of with all the content of these issues by purchasing The Repository CD.
Compendium Content Print
Posted: Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:40

2013

Volume 20, Number1, March 2013

  • Sundials for Starters – Art in Placing The Gnomon - Robert L. Kellogg
  • Non Numero Nisi Serenas - Gertrude Hoey
  • Parallel Time - Peggy Gunnerson
  • A Reflective Reflected Sundial - Silvio Magnani
  • Tracking Elihu Yale’s Sundial - Fred Sawyer
  • Using The Sun To Survey Long Straight Lines - Arthur L. Kaufman
  • Quiz Answer: Nicole’s Meridian - Fred Sawyer
  • Digital Bonus
  • Sundial Plaza/Cranmer Park Endangered - Colorado Preservation
  • An Hours To Sunset Vertical Analemmatic Sundial - Mac Oglesby
  • Horizontal Layout 8 - Alessandro Gunella
  • An EOT App For Android Platforms - Don Snyder
  • The Tove’s Nest

2012

Volume 19 Number 3, September 2012

  • Sundials for Starters – A Simple Equatorial Dial – Robert L. Kellogg
  • Quiz: The Houseman’s Trick – Kosmala & Wieland
  • The Meridian Instrument at Griffith Observaory – Bohannan & Norris
  • A Compact Indoor Reflection Sundial – Egan & Kellogg
  • An Eclipse Sundial – Bill Gottesman
  • Projected Refraction Sundials with Ambigram – Fred Sawyer
  • The Sphere of Matelica – Alessandro Gunella
  • Horizontal Layout 6 – Fred Sawyer
  • Henry Moore Sundial In Germany – Rolf Wieland
  • The Tove’s Nest
  • Digital Bonus – Maps, Sundials in Mallorca, Ambigrams and More

Volume 19 Number 2, June 2012

  • Sundials for Starters – Oldest Dials - Robert L. Kellogg
  • Horizontal Layout 5 - Patrick Powers
  • Sighting… In Saratoga Springs - Martin & Janet Jenkins
  • Geographic Dials - Alessandro Gunella
  • The Sundial (Poem) - Stephen Coleridge
  • Polyhedral Sundials - Donald Snyder
  • NASS at USASEF - Robert Kellogg
  • Shadow Casting And Lines On Spherical Sundials, Pt. 2 - Ortwin Feustel
  • Inca Gnomons - Arthur L. Kaufman
  • Horiz. Instrument, Thomas Spencer & The Sundicator - Tom Kreyche
  • The Tove’s Nest
  • Digital Bonus: Cartesius 2011 Sundial Design software - Riccardo Anselmi
  • Digital Bonus: Educational Multi-Dial for Schools - Tony Moss
  • Digital Bonus: Patent 2,715,273 "Sundicator" - Determining Direction of Astronomical Bodies - Dodd & Spencer

Volume 19 Number 1, March 2012

  • Sundials for Starters – World’s Largest & Smallest – Robert L. Kellogg
  • Canonical and Antique Hours, and St. Benedict – Frans W. Maes
  • Sundial Sightings… At Kalamazoo Nature Center – Mark Montgomery
  • Quize Answer: The Relocated Equatorial Sundial – Feustel & Wieland
  • A Look at Using a Watch as a Compass – Jeffrey L. Kretsch
  • Daylight Saving Time – C.J. Corliss
  • Two Sundials in Drama, Greece – Theodossiou, et. al.
  • Gnomonic Diversions: A Motorized Sundial – Silvio Magnani
  • The Sundial of Cicero – Massimo Goretti
  • Horizontal Layouts 1-4 – Fred Sawyer
  • The Serendipitous Sundial – Paul Kinion
  • An Equicurvilinear Layout         Francis Reymann
  • The Tove’s Nest
  • Digital Bonus: CadranMulticurv.xls (Francis Reymann), OudemansCurve.pdf (Fred Sawyer), Reflsun.exe (Gianni Ferrari) and Reflsun_Manual.pdf (manual for reflection sundials)

2011

Volume 18 Number 4, December 2011

  • Displaced Sundials – Rolf Wieland
  • Quiz Answer: The Fractured Dial Face – Mac Oglesby
  • A Sundial for Rheticus – Helmut Sonderegger
  • Digital Bonus
  • British Sundial Safari to le Mans, France – Jack Aubert
  • Sun City Sundial Re-dedication – John Carmichael
  • A Stained Glass Spot Dial – Mark Montgomery
  • Shadow Casting and Lines on Spherical Sundials – Part 1 – Ortwin Feustel
  • Quiz: The Relocated Equatorial Sundial – Ortwein Feustel
  • How to Build a Geographic Sundial – Gianpero Casalegno
  • Hour and Date Lines on a Round Tower – Rolf Wieland
  • The Equation of Time from Bender’s Big Score (2007)
  • The Tove’s Nest
  • A Fool’s Errand

Volume 18 Number 3, September 2011

  • Sundials for Starte - Video Potpourri  –  Robert L. Kellogg
  • Further Notes On The Spherical Gnomon Sundial – Hal Brandmaier
  • A Shadow Tubes Model for Spherical Gnomons – Stephen Luecking
  • Quiz Answer: The Shadow of a Pergola – Rolf Wieland
  • Quiz: The Fractured Dial Face – Mac Oglesby
  • Apt Sundial Tour – Roger Bailey
  • Digital Bonus
  • Shadows Cast By a Tilted Circular Disk – Ortwin Feustel
  • The Profile of the Horizon – Gianpiero Casalegno
  • The Oughtred Dial and Scratch Dials – Alessandro Gunella
  • Sundial Sighting… At Indiana University – Mark Montgomery
  • The Tove’s Nest

Volume 18 Number 2, June 2011

  • Sundials for Starters – Penumbral Shadow - Robert L. Kellogg
  • Quiz Answer:  Progressive Sunsets – Bill Gottesman
  • Quiz: The Shadow of a Pergola - Rolf Wieland
  • Declination of the Sun (Approximating Formulae) - Herbert O. Ramp
  • Digital Bonus
  • Developing Ozanam's Map Dial Into A Modern Dial - Bill Gottesman
  • Students Construct Sundials - Mac Oglesby
  • Sundial Sighting ... At Butler University - Mark Montgomery
  • The Sundial On The Bridge - C.M. Paine (1905)
  • Ancient Hour Lines: Italic, Babylonian and Unequal Hours - Alessandro Gunella
  • A Panoramic Sundial - L. Ghia & T. Tasselli
  • How Accurate Are Bernhardt Rollers? - Rolf Wieland
  • Solving A Bifilar Sundial Using Vectors - William D. Horst
  • The Tove's Nest

Volume 18 Number 1, March 2011

  • Sundials for Starters – Education - Robert L. Kellogg
  • Quiz: Progressive Sunsets – Bill Gottesman
  • Digital Bonus: Calcad, Geotagging Zarbula, Japan Sundial Society, Porter and Hartness
  • To A Sundial… A Poem – D.F.G. Johnson
  • James Hartness & Russell Porter, Sundials & Sunclocks – Bert Willard
  • Sundials From Two Shadow Points – Yvon Massé
  • The Wistlepig Farm Sundial – Hugh Munro
  • The Japan Sundial Society -  Barry Duell
  • Equaation Of Time – Approximating Formulae – Herbert O. Ramp
  • The EoT In Your Poke – Rolf Wieland
  • Geotagging Zarbula’s Sundials – Roger Bailey
  • A Sundial Based On The Archimedean Spiral – Ortwin Feustel
  • Dialing By Projection – Alessandro Gunella
  • A Method For Orienting A Horizontal Plane – Gianni Ferrari
  • Etching Sundials – Malcom Barnfield
  • The Tove’s Nest

2010

Volume 17 Number 4, December 2010

  • Sundials for Starters – Limits On Precision - Robert L. Kellogg
  • Kate Pnd – “Come Light, Visit Me” – Art Paque
  • USA Science & Engineering Festival – Robert L. Kellogg
  • Sightings… At The University Of Notre Dame – Mark Montgomery
  • In Pursuit Of Alpine Sundials – Woodruff T. Sullivan III
  • Digital Bonuses: Versamap, Building & Using A Very Simple Heliodon, Paper Sundials On the Mall, Wendell Library Sundial, Last Scratchings of An Old Bird, and 2010 Registry Update
  • Shadow Planes – Rolf Wieland
  • Dinsmore’s Comparative Time Table – Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz Answer: Rowbottom’s Slip – Rolf Wieland
  • Envelopes Of Sunrays As Gnomon Profiles – Ortwin Feustel
  • Dialing At Chalet de Graffigna – Matthew Sundquist
  • A Simple Heliodon – Mac Oglesby
  • Renaissance Crucifix Sundial Card Model – Chris O’ Connor
  • The Tove’s Nest

Volume 17 Number 3, September 2010

  • Sundials for Starters – Shadow Planes - Robert L. Kellogg
  • Digital Bonuses – Gnomonics Up North … to Refsun.exe application
  • The University of Georgia’s ’08 Sundial – John H. N. Whatley
  • UGA To Return Historic Sundial To Prince Avenue Campus
  • The Clock and The Sun-Dial – Antoine de la Motte
  • Love And the Sun-Dial – Thomas Moore
  • Solstice Point On  Analemmatic Sundials – Roger Bailey
  • The Analemmatic Dial Solstice Point & Gnomon Height – Fred Sawyer
  • Two Sundials At … Eisenhower’s Gettysburg Farm – James Ludwig
  • Quiz Answers: Chipchase’s Return – Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz: Rowbotton’s Slip – Fred Sawyer
  • Video On Photo-Etching Metal – Tony Moss
  • A Multiple Mirror Reflection Sundial – Silvio Magnani
  • A Note on the Equation of Time
  • The Ottoman Sundials In Aiello del Friuli – Gianni Ferrari
  • Gnomonics Up North “Le Gnomoniste” (1993-2010) André E. Bouchard
  • The Tove’s Nest
Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 March 2013 23:13
Read more...
 
Here's How to Get The Compendium Print
Posted: Sunday, 30 January 2011 23:24

Join NASS and Receive Quarterly Issues of The Compendium. 

Annual membership in the North American Sundial Society includes four issues of The Compendium, available in print, CD-R discs, or down-loadable digital editions. Since June 2010, the print edition comes in full color, while the CD-R and digital editions not only come in digital color, but from time to time offer software features and other material of interest to computer users. The Digital Compendium is available on a CD-R via postal mail or by download. It is published in PDF and requires the Adobe Reader® to read. NASS membership and subscription can be made for one or two years.

How did you find out about the North American Sundial Society? Whether you join using the attached pdf registration form or register via the Pay Pal links below, please let our Vice President This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it know how you found us.

We are simplifying the NASS membership options:

  • You may send a check in US Dollars, made payable to NASS through a US Bank. Alternatively you may use Pay Pal to subscribe using credit card. Please note that there are two sets of rates: (1) for those living in North America, and (2) for those living anywhere else in the world. If paying by check, include your subscription option, address and email address to:

    Fredrick W. Sawyer III,   8 Sachem Drive,   Glastonbury,   CT 06033, USA

  • We have made special arrangements for those living in the United Kingdom to pay checks in GB Pounds. Alternatively you may use Pay Pal to subscribe using credit card. If paying by check, include your subscription option, address and email address to:

    Graham Aldred,   4 Sheardall Avenue,   Disley,   Stockport   SK12   2DE, UK

Your may click on the Pay Pal options below or you may download a PDF subscription form. If you choose the PDF subscription form, fill it out and mail in it with a check to Fredrick W. Sawyer III. The PDF is attached at the bottom of this page.
Last Updated on Thursday, 07 April 2011 20:47
Read more...
 


© 1995-2010 NASS