Sundials: Full Bibliography

Recommended Reading

D.J. Bryden, The Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Catalogue 6. Sundials and Related Instruments, Cambridge 1988)

Sharon Gibbs, Greek and Roman Sundials, Newhaven 1976

Penelope Gouk, The Ivory Sundials of Nuremberg 1500-1700 Cambridge 1988

Hester Higton, The Sundials, Nocturnals and Horary Quadrants of the National Maritime Museum Oxford forthcoming (1999 or 2000)

Steven A. Lloyd, Ivory Diptych Sundials 1570-1750, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1992

Other Texts

Mario Arnaldi & Karlheinz Schaldach, 'A Roman Cylinder Dial: Witness to a Forgotten Tradition' in Journal of the History of Astronomy xxviii (1997), pp.107-117

G.V. Coyne, S.J., M.A. Hoskins and O. Pedersen eds., Gregorian Reform of the Calendar: Proceedings of the Vatican Conference to Commemorate its 400th Anniversary 1582Ü1982, Vatican City 1983

Catherine Eagleton, Navicula de Venetiis: construction and characteristics, unpublished dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1998

Kathleen Higgins, 'The Classification of Sundials' in Annals of Science, 9 (1953), pp.342-358

Hester Higton, A Dial from his Poke: A History of Portable Sundials, London 2000

Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, Cambridge, vols 3, 1959, and 4 part 1, 1962

F.A.B. Ward, A Catalogue of European Scientific Instruments, London 1981