The Bulletin is the journal of the British Sundial Society. It comprises scientific and other papers, mainly contributed by society members and covering their fields of interest. It also carries reports of the principal society meetings and reviews of relevant books and papers from other journals. It is published four times a year in distinctive yellow covers; each number at the moment contains 48
full-colour pages. Members all receive their own copy and copies are kept in certain specialized libraries.
I will be glad to receive articles or other material related to sundials for consideration for publication in the Bulletin. For advice on preparing material for inclusion in the Bulletin please see Guidelines for Contributors
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A complete list of Contents from 1989 to 2011 inclusive can be downloaded
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The contents of the last few Bulletins are given here to show the variety of articles that are included in each issue. Some of the articles from the Bulletin are available as PDF files - just click on the links. All articles are copyright of the BSS and their authors.
76. Volume 22(iv) December 2010
1. Editorial
2. The Equinoctial Armilla on the Façade of the Santa Maria Novella
Basilica, Florence - Simone Bartolini &
Marco Pierozzi
7. Readers’ Letters - Maes, Mills, Lowne
9. A New Babylonian and Italian Hours Sundial for Selwyn College,
Cambridge. Pt. 2. Numerical Insights - Frank H. King
11. Kratzer’s Lost Dial - JD
12. Four Sundials in Adelaide, South Australia - Douglas
Bateman
17. The Benares (India) Sundial in Three Dimensions - John
Ward, Margaret Folkard & Ron Blum
20. A Very Large Polar Dial in Lalín, Galicia, N.W. Spain, Designed by José
Luis Basanta Campos of Pontevedra
- Alan
Smith
22. The Construction of an Equatorial Sundial with a Reference to
Anaximander’s Skiatheron - A. Galanakis, E. Theodossiou &
V.N. Manimanis
25. Postcard Potpourri 18: Lochgoilhead, Argyll - Peter
Ransom
26. Meridies Media—An Historical Essay. The direct vertical noon mark mean
time sundial at Greenwich
-
Christopher Daniel
31. Newbury 2010 - Mike Groom
33. The Perception of Time in Anglo-Saxon England - David
Scott
37. Merton College Dial - JD
38. Beata Beatrix - Roger Bowling
41. New Dials (1) - Valery Dmitriev
42. The Evolution of English Mass & Scratch Dials c. 1250-1650. Pt. 2. Age
Ranking Dials by Type - Chris H.K. Williams
44. New Dials (2) - Brian Albinson
45. The BSS 2010 Sundial Design Competition - Tony Belk
77. Volume 23(i) March 2011
1. Editorial
2. The Restoration of the Sundial at Stutton Hall, Suffolk -
Harriet James (PDF 703 KB)
5. A Polyhedral Dial
6. Symbolic Meanings of Sundials in Antiquity. Introduced by an
explanation of ancient timekeepers - Jérôme Bonnin
11. Accurate Division Without the Use of a Dividing Engine -
Tony Moss
12. Seven Dials. The investigations of an Austrian tourist -
Walter Hofmann
14. Queen Mary’s Dial
15. A Sundial and its Provenance - Tony Wood
16. Hop onto a Sundial for Your House! - Vicki DeKleer
17. Captain Sturmy’s Polyhedral Dial - JD
18. Two Methods to Find the Eccentricity of the Earth’s Orbit from
Measurements with a Sundial. Part 2—Observations and calculations of e
- Jos Kint & Stan Ulens
20. Book Reviews - Davis
22. A Reconstruction of Ludwig Hohenfeld’s 1596 Polyhedral Sundial -
Frans W. Maes
27. The History and Symbolism of Ludwig Hohenfeld’s 1596 Polyhedral Sundial
- Klaus Eichholz
31. Postcard Potpourri 19—Corhampton, Hampshire - Peter
Ransom
32. Four Horizontal Sundials in Schools of Volos, Alonnisos and Stefanoviki
- D. Blatsis, E. Theodossiou & V.N. Manimanis
34. A Sun Simulator for Moyse’s Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds -
Mike Cowham
36. English Scratch (Mass) Dials: The ravages of time revisited -
Chris H.K. Williams
39. Sundial Ephemera—Crested ‘Goss’ China Sundials -
Christopher Daniel
41. Dial Dealings 2010 - Mike Cowham
43. Shadowy Secrets. Part 6—The limits of latitude in sundial design -
John Moir
45. Examine Your Dials - Tony Wood
46. Polyhedral Ramblings - Peter Ransom
78. Volume 23(ii) June 2011
1. Editorial
2. The Rainbow as a Solar Timekeeper - Allan Mills
8. A Horizontal Quadrant of 1658 by Henry Sutton; Part 1 -
Michael Lowne & John Davis
13. War Memorial Dials - Tony Wood
14. Before the BSS—A Sundial Chronicle - Christopher Daniel
20. The Sundial Goes to War: Part 1 - Malcolm Barnfield
25. Readers’ Letters - Cowan
26. A Dial to Travel With - Jackie Jones
26. The John Rowley Dial - John Davis
27. Minutes of the 22nd Annual General Meeting, Wyboston, 1 May 2011
28. Accounts 2010
33. Photographic Competition 2010 - Ian Butson
36. The Ecclesiastical ‘Scratch Dial’ as a Serious Timekeeper -
Peter I. Drinkwater
43. Readers’ Letters (continued) - Taylor, Foad
44. A Stained Glass Sundial
with a Magnetic Gnomon - John Carmichael
(PDF 472 KB)
48. Restoring the Sundial at St Nicholas’ Church, Leicester -
Robert Ovens
51. West Indies Dials - JD
54. The Great Amwell Scottish Renaissance Obelisk Dial Boss. Part 1. Reading
a Scottish renaissance sundial boss - Malcolm Bishop
79. Volume 23(iii) September 2011
1. Editorial
2. A Medieval Gunter’s
Quadrant? - John Davis (PDF 688 KB)
7. Book Review - Karney
8. BSS Photographic Competition 2010–11. Pt 2: The Conference Vote
- Ian R. Butson
10. The Sundial Goes To War. Part 2 - Malcolm Barnfield
15. Postcard Potpourri 20—English Harbour, Antigua - Peter
Ransom
16. Ancient Egyptian Sundials - Allan Mills
20. English Mass & Scratch Dials c.1250–c.1650 Combining statistical and
religious evidence - Chris H.K. Williams
22. The Coronation Dial at Painswick - Tony Wood
23. Daniel Delander Dial Recovered - John Davis
24. The Great Amwell Scottish Renaissance Obelisk Dial Boss. Part 2: The
Facet record - Malcolm Bishop
27. Umbra Docet—the shadow teaches - Walter Hofmann
27. Nature Club of Pakistan - Christopher Daniel
28. BSS Annual Conference, Wyboston Lakes, 29 April–1 May 2011 -
Frank Evans
34. Simple Instrument for Finding a Meridian Line - William
Watson (with comment from Michael Lowne)
35. New Dials - Boldyrev
36. Another West Indies Dial? - Peter Ransom
37. Readers’ Letters - Lowne, Williams, Drinkwater, Young
38. The Margaret Stanier Memorial Sundial: An Unequal-Hours Dial for Newnham
College. Pt. 1. Some design considerations - Frank H. King
44. A Fathers Day Present - Peter Ransom
45. A Horizontal Quadrant of 1658 by Henry Sutton. Pt. 2 -
Michael Lowne & John Davis
48. Holiday Sightings
80. Volume 23(iv) December 2011
2. The Canterbury Pendant. Part 1: A new insight from an ancient
rule for making portable altitude dials - Mario Arnaldi
8. Time For Another Beer? - Jackie Jones
10. The BSS Sundial Safari to Le Mans, France. 7-11 September 2011 -
Val Cowham, David & Kate Hindle, Jane Walker, Robert Sylvester and Geoff
Parsons
14. Sundial Festival at the Gatchina Palace, St Petersburg -
Valery Dmitriev
16. The Sundial of the Certosa of Florence (Tuscany, Italy) Restored to
Working Condition - Stefano Barbolini,
Giovanni Garofalo, Guido Dresti and Rosario Mosello
22. A Stump-work Dial - John Lester
23. New Dials - Michael Harley
24. Robert Stikford’s ‘De Umbris Versis et Extensis’ - John
Davis
29. Medieval Catholic English Mass Dials of the 14th and 15th Centuries
- Chris H.K. Williams
32. The Margaret Stanier Memorial Sundial: An Unequal-hours Dial for Newnham
College. Part 2: Evolution of the design - Annika E. Larsson
38. The Newstead Sundials -
Dennis Cowan (PDF 577 KB)
41. A Painted Polyhedral Dial - John Foad
42. Mind the Gap – Sundials and Leap Years - Frank H. King
47. Readers’ Letters - Manston, Ingram, Nicholls, King,
Foad, Turner.
49. The Art of Painting Sundials - JD
50. BSS Newbury Meeting – 24 September 2011 - Frank Coe
Earlier selected articles
Bulletin 19 (iii) September 2007 page 105 Noon Cannons: A Sundial Conceit - Piers Nicholson (PDF 246 KB)
Bulletin 19 (iii) September 2007 page 125 Sundial Supporters Revisited - Roger Bowling (PDF 449 KB)
Bulletin 19 (iii) September 2007 page 137 Declination Lines Detailed - Tony Belk (PDF 310 KB)
Bulletin 19 (iv) December 2007 page 146 Daniel O'Connell: Teacher and Slate Sundial Maker - Michael Harley (PDF 800 KB)
Bulletin 19 (iv) December 2007 page 179 John Rowell: Plumber and Stained Glass Dial Maker - John Davis (PDF 1592 KB)
Bulletin 20 (ii) June 2008 page 68. Making Porcelain Sundials - Elena F Vasilevskay & Aleksandr M Boldyrev (PDF 486 KB)
Bulletin 20 (iii) September 2008
page 102. An Early Meridian Line in a Former Stately Home, Hampshire - Douglas Bateman (PDF 508 KB)
Bulletin 20 (iv) December 2008 page 154. The Universal East and West Polar Dial - Mike Cowham (PDF 312 KB)
Bulletin 21 (i) March 2009 page 2. A North-facing Polarization Sundial of Varying Hue - Allan Mills (PDF 412 KB)
Bulletin 21(ii) June 2009 page
34. A Lead Domestic Windowsill Dial - Peter Baxandall (PDF 440 KB)
Bulletin 21(iii) September
2009 page 2. A Universal Altitude Dial by John Marke - Michael Lowne & John Davis (PDF 500 KB)
Bullertin 21(iv) December 2009
page 2. The Pantheon as a
Timekeeper - Robert Hannah (PDF 466 KB)
Bulletin 22(i) March 2010 page 14. The English Scratch & Mass
Dial Era: Origins to c.1250 - Chris H.K. Williams
(PDF 234 KB)
Bulletin 22(ii) June 2010 page 38. An Unusual Slate Sundial
- Mike Cowham (PDF 308 KB)
Bulletin 22(iii) September 2010
page 40. An Unrecorded Silesian
Sundial By John Rowley - Maciek Lose (PDF 551 KB)
Back numbers of the Bulletin are available for Members and Non-members. A few issues are now out of print. These out of print issues are however available on a CD-ROM, and a DVD-R is now available of the first 75 issues. See Publications for details.