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John Davis - Bulletin EditorThe 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 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

Dr J Davis - BSS Editor. Contact details are here

 

 


 


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Contents


A complete list of Contents from 1989 to 2010 inclusive can be downloaded here. (MS Word .doc file)

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.

69. Volume 21(i)  March 2009
 
2.   A North-facing Polarization Sundial of Varying Hue  -  Allan Mills (PDF 412 KB)
7.   Gerard Désargues  -  JD
8.   New Dials  -  French, Dmitriev, Dillon
10. A Moondial for the Northern Hemisphere  -  Michael Lee
13. Reader’s Letter  -  Kenn
14. An Electronic Polarization Sundial and Photometer  -  Allan Mills
16. The Mass Dials of Continental Europe  -  Chris H.K. Williams
18. Construction of my Lawn Analemmatic Sundial  -  Ken Head
20. SIS Invitation Lecture (report)  -  John Davis
22. Sundials of St Petersburg  -  Valery Dmitriev
27. Is that a dial? Barcheston, Warwickshire  -  Jill Wilson and Tony Wood
28. A Russian Analemmatic Dial  -  Aleksandr Boldyrev
31. An Unusual Equation of Time Display  -  John Davis
32. Dial Dealings  -  Mike Cowham
36. Postcard Potpourri 11: All Saints’ Church, Hillesden, Bucks  -  Peter Ransom
37. Book Review  -  Shaw
38. The Sundial at Glamis Castle  -  David Gauld
42. Jane Austen and a “Small Astronomical Instrument”  -  John Baxandall
43. Graveyard and other Memorial Sundials  -  John Wall
48. Sundial Alarm  -  Tony Moss

70. Volume 21(ii)  June 2009

2.  The 67 Sundials of Caius Court, Cambridge  -  Mick Le Moignan
5.  Folkard and Ward, Sundials Australia: a visit report  -  Douglas Bateman
8.  Reader’s Letter  -  Lester
9.  Two Newly Discovered Sundials on the Isle of Wight  -  Elizabeth Hutchings
10. Errors in Dials at the Wrong Latitude  -  Tony Belk
11. The Double Horizontal Dial—Then and Now; at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science  -  John Davis
12. The ‘Lost’ Barrington Stained Glass Dial Rediscovered  -  John Davis
13. Early East-Facing Dials  -  Tony Wood
14. The Adjustment of Wall Mounted Vertical Dials  -  Ortwin Feustel
18. Sundials Within the Tropics  -  Malcolm Barnfield
24. An Equatorial Sundial with EoT Adjustment  -  Roger Bunce
31. The BSS Photographic Competition 2008-9  -  Patrick Powers
34. A Lead Domestic Windowsill Dial  -  Peter Baxandall (PDF 440 KB)
40. Postcard Potpourri 12—Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, USA  -  Peter Ransom
41. Altitude Dials for Tropical Regions  -  Mike Cowham
43. The Prevalence of English Mass (Scratch) Dials c. 1650—Part 1  -  Chris H K Williams
44. New Dials  -  Moir, Harber
46. The Gravestone of a Sundial Maker  -  Roger Bowling
47. A Novel Reflecting Dial in Sweden  -  Dina Hviid and Curt Roslund
48. Chiming Sundial  -  JD

71. Volume 21(iii)  September 2009

2.   A Universal Altitude Dial by John Marke  -  Michael Lowne & John Davis (PDF 500 KB)
8.   Visit to Bramshill House, 6th June 2009  -  Mike Isaacs
9.   Modern Mass Dials and an Experiment with Time  -  Tony Wood
10. Prehistoric Sundials in Ireland  -  Michael J Harley
15. Postcard Potpourri 13: Rémalard, France  -  Peter Ransom
16. Searching for Lost Time: Finding Sundials in Rutland  -  Bryan Waites
20. New Dial  -  JD
20. Reader’s Letter  -  Lowne
21. The 20th BSS Conference, Grange-over-Sands  -  Chris Lusby Taylor
25. Mystery Inscription
25. A Sundial Hat
26. A Vertical Sundial Indicating the Present Ecliptic Positions of the Constellations  -  Ortwin Feustel
32. Two Manchester Glass Dials  -  Roger Bowling
34. The Prevalence of English Mass (Scratch) Dials c.1650—Part 2  -  Chris H K Williams
36. The Recently Discovered Irish-Style Dial at Tywyn  -  Mike Cowham and Bill Linnard
38. The BSS Photocompetition 2008-09: The Conference Vote  -  Patrick Powers
40. Minutes of the 20th Annual General Meeting held at the Cumbria Grand Hotel, Grange-over-Sands
42. Book Reviews  -  Evans, Davis
44. A Roller in a Cottage Garden?  -  Rob Alton
45. Hans Holbein’s Design for a Clocksalt  -  JD
46. The Housewife’s Trick  -  Chris Lusby Taylor

72. Volume 21(iv)  December 2009

2.  The Pantheon as a Timekeeper  -  Robert Hannah (PDF 466 KB)
5.  Reader’s Letter  -  Karney, C. Davis
6.  William Watson of Seaton Ross (1784-1857)  -  Malcolm Young (plus John Foad & John Davis)
9.  Postcard Potpourri 14 - The Butter Cross, Witney, Oxfordshire  -  Peter Ransom
10. A Tribute to Robert Hooke  -  Allan Mills
13. BSS Visit to the Royal Greenwich Observatory  -  JD
14. New Dials  -  Dmitriev, Barnfield
15. Dialling from “The Ladies’ Diary”  -  Peter Ransom
17. Collectors’ Dials
18. The English Scratch and Mass Dial Era: The Evidential Period c.1250 to c.1650  -  Chris H K Williams
19. The Sun-Dial at Wells College (poem)  -  Henry Van Dyke
20. Robert Cutbush—a provincial dialmaker  -  John Davis
23. BSS Newbury Meeting, 26 September 2009  -  John Lester
26. A Photographer’s Sundial  -  Tony Belk
28. A Universal Heliochronometer  -  Michael Lee
33. Sundial Cakes
34. A Double Catenary Bifilar Sundial for the Balearic Islands University Campus  -  Rafael Soler
37. Satellite Dish Sundial  -  John Davis
38. Prism Dials—a regional variety?  -  Tony Wood
40. Gnomon Supporters  -  Mike Cowham
43. BSS East Anglian Safari: 19-25 September 2009  -  Val Cowham, Moss, Marginson, Evans, Isaacs, Carsen

73. Volume 22(i)  March 2010

2.  The Restoration of Egnazio Danti’s Astronomical Quadrant on the Santa Maria Novella Basilica in Florence  -  Simone Bartolini & Marco Pierozzi
9.  Book Review  -  Baxandall
10. New Dials  -  Dmitriev, H. James, JD
11. Archibald Handasyde
12. An Equatorial Analemmatic and Calendar Sundial, Alicante, Spain  -  Douglas Bateman
13. Postcard Potpourri 15—Marsh Court, Stockbridge, Hampshire  -  Peter Ransom
14. The English Scratch & Mass Dial Era: Origins to c.1250  -  Chris H.K. Williams
18. The Dial Designed for Church Street, Sheffield, by E A Pippet  -  Mike Cowham
20. Holiday Sightings (1)  -  David Payne
21. Readers’ Letters  -  Gunella, Lowne, Wood, Bateman, Williams
23. Holiday Sightings (2)  -  Eddie French
24. Thomas Tuttell’s Playing Cards  -  John Davis
28. Dial Dealings 2009  -  Mike Cowham
32. Sundial Slides for Magic Lanterns  -  Peter Ransom
34. The Only ‘Mass Dial’ in Greece  -  E. Theodossiou & V.N. Manimanis
37. Holiday Sightings (3)  -  Robert Sylvester
38. The Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, South Africa  -  Malcolm Barnfield
41. West Indies Dials in Gloucestershire  -  Tony Wood & Jill Wilson
42. The Noel Ta’Bois Fixed Dial Archive  -  John Foad
44. A Simple Sundial Maker in South Africa  -  Henk van der Ham
46.Question 87 from The Ladies’ Diary  -  Peter Ransom
47. Mystery Dials  -  John Foad
48. Photographer’s Dial—Part 2  -  Tony Belk

Earlier selected articles :-

Bulletin 19 (iii) September 2007 page 105: Noon Sundials - 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 J. 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)


 

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