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North American Sundial Society

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NASS PUBLICATIONS

  • The Society produces The Compendium, a quarterly journal in both print and digital formats. The content is essentially the same, but the digital edition may include programs and other features of interest to computer users.

    The digital edition is produced using Neobook Pro (TM). Requirements for the digital edition include an IBM compatible computer with 640K RAM, VGA color, MS-DOS 3.1 and a hard disk. A Logitech or Microsoft compatible mouse is also recommended.

    A sample copy of the digital edition is available for download (INSTAL51.EXE, a self extracting exe - 1.4meg).

  • For a complete list of other NASS publications and instructions for ordering, see the Publications Order Form

  • If you have questions or comments about editorial matters,
    e-mail the NASS Editor, Frederick W. Sawyer.

THE DIALIST'S COMPANION

    is a new computer program written especially for dialists. Click here for a complete overview and a summary of the data elements presented. The program has been released to non-members as shareware and can be downloaded.

COMPENDIUM  BACK ISSUES

2000

Volume 7 Number 2, June 2000

  • The Sun-Dial - Rev. John C. Hill
  • A Gnomonic Cane - M. de Caire de la Condamine
  • Interactive Sundials With Graduated Gnomon - Gianni Ferrari
  • Digital Bonus : Vargnom, Ozanam, Rings - Ferrari, deVries, Bell
  • The Theory Of A Vertical Declining Bifilar Sundial - II - Dominique Collin
  • Sightings....In The Antilles - Sebastián Robiou-Lamarche
  • Leonardo's Ellipse And Hour Line Construction - Stephen Luecking
  • Quiz Answer : Jacques' Layout - Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz : The Pelekinon Brief - Fred Sawyer
  • Save Outdoor Sculpture! From The Internet
  • The Reutte Sundial Competition - Claude Hartman
  • Triple Sundial - deVries, Maddux, Oglesby
  • Letters, Notes, Email, Internet ....

Volume 7 Number 1, March 2000

  • Adjusting A Horizontal Sundial For Standard - Time Bill Gottesman
  • Quiz Answer: Nicole’s Wedge - Fred Sawyer
  • Identification And Translation Of Plane Sundials - René J. Vinck
  • Digital Bonus: WEDGE - Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz: Jacques' Layout - Fred Sawyer
  • Three Shadow Plane Sundials - Mac Oglesby
  • Exhibition : "The Art Of Time" - Steven R. Woodbury
  • Thomas Jefferson's Sundial
  • Determining The Declination Of A Vertical Wall - Allan D. Pratt
  • A Dialing Excursion In Japan - Reinhold Kriegler
  • Basho Hidokei: A Traditional Japanese Sundial - Fred Sawyer
  • Sightings... Down By The Bay - Steven R. Woodbury
  • Letters, Notes, Email, Internet

1999

Volume 6 Number 4, December 1999

  • Shadow Plane Sundials II - Maddux, Oglesby & deVries
  • Shadow Plane Addendum - Fred Sawyer
  • A Sundial With Multiple Gnomons - Gianni Ferrari
  • Sightings...By A Dial Hunter - Steven R. Woodbury
  • Sundial Sculptures Of Stone And Brass - John Carmichael
  • Theory Of A Vertical Declining Bifilar Sundial I - Dominique Collin
  • Digital Bonus: QiblaCalc
  • Quiz Answer: Heliotrope XVIII - Fred Sawyer
  • Minutes Of The Annual General Meeting - Sara Schechner
  • Quiz: Nicole's Wedge - Fred Sawyer
  • The NASS Angel - Fred Sawyer
  • Maker's Marks, An Invitation - Fred Sawyer
  • Letters, Notes, Email, Internet ....

Volume 6 Number 3, September 1999

  • The Stars At Noon - Tony D'Arpino
  • Shadow Plane Sundials - Maddux, Oglesby & deVries
  • An Historical Canadian Sundial - Don Petrie
  • Quiz : Heliotrope XVIII - Fred Sawyer
  • The Equatorial Sundial At Frankfurt am Main - Achim M. Loske
  • Quiz Answer : The 6 Tags Experience - Yvon Masse & Fred Sawyer
  • Digital Bonus : A 6 Tags Calculator - Fred Sawyer
  • Light As Shadow - Sundials Without Gnomons - Mario Catamo & Cesare Lucarini
  • The Gundlach Shadowless Sundials - Fred Sawyer
  • Sightings ... At Noon - Steven R. Woodbury
  • Letters, Notes, Email, Internet ....

Volume 6 Number 2, June 1999

  • Sundials - A. M. (1903)
  • Sightings... In The Garden - Steven R. Woodbury
  • A Sundot Polar Sundial - Jan H. Pretorius
  • Treatise On The Bi-Gnomonial Sundial - Allan D. Pratt
  • Georg Hartmann's Moondial - John Lamprey
  • A Game Of Shadow Tag - Yvon Massé
  • Quiz: A 6 Tags Experience - Yvon Massé and Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz Answer: Emerson's Quandry - Fred Sawyer
  • Prosthaphaeresis - Fred Sawyer
  • Hâfir and Halazûn - deVries, Maddux and Oglesby
  • Digital Bonus: Hafir.exe and Halazun.exe
  • Letters, Notes, Emai l, Internet ....

Volume 6 Number 1, March 1999

  • Time Flies In DeLand Illinois - James Ludwig
  • A "Universal" Capuchin Dial - Fer J. deVries, et al.
  • Quiz : Emerson's Quandary - Fred Sawyer
  • Some Sundials Based On Ptolemaic Coordinates - Gianni Ferrari
  • Quiz Answer: Kratzer's Layout - Fred Sawyer
  • Sightings ... In Charleston, SC - Steven R. Woodbury
  • Gnomonic Tafelmusik - Larry Stark
  • NASS 5-Yr. Index - Fred Sawyer
  • Catherine de Medicis' Column In Paris - Denis Savoie
  • Digital Bonus: Pingre - Fer J. de Vries
  • Letters, Notes, Email, Internet ....

1998

Volume 5 Number 4, December 1998

  • Analemmic-Equatorial Sundials - Pete Swanstrom
  • Special Offer: Seattle Souvenirs
  • Sightings ... On Campus - Steven R. Woodbury
  • Quiz Answer: Angular Puzzlement - Rene J. Vinck
  • Minutes Of The Fourth Annual General Meeting - Sara Schechner Genuth
  • Universal Card Dials with Nomograms - Fer J. DeVries et al.
  • Quiz: Kratzer's Layout - Fred Sawyer
  • The Cycloid Polar Sundial - Fred Sawyer
  • Sundials In Iran - Mohammad Bagheri
  • Std. Time Equatorial Dial With Split Analemma - Ray Lowry
  • Digital Bonus: SUNR-20A - David Cook
  • Two Worlds - One Sun. Mars 2002
  • Letters, Notes, Email, Internet ....

Volume 5 Number 3, September 1998

  • Witch's Sundial - Diane Engle
  • A Card Dial With Italian Hours - Maddux, Oglesby, Thom & deVries
  • Sidereal Time By Cassiopeia - C.A. Young (1897)
  • Monofilar Sundials - Gianni Ferrari
  • Digital Bonus - Ferrari's Program
  • Sightings.... - Steven Woodbury
  • Quiz: Angular Puzzlement - Rene J. Vinck
  • Quiz Answer: An Analemmic Reflection - George L. McDowell
  • Quiz Answer: A Restored Village Dial - Rene J. Vinck
  • Sundial Design Using Matrices - Harold Brandmaier
  • Ptolemaic Coordinate Sundials - Fred Sawyer
  • Special Offer - Hectemoros Sundial 5
  • Sundials With Conical Gnomons For Sidereal Time - Javier Moreno Bores
  • A Sundial For Sidereal Time - Rene J. Vinck
  • Letters, Notes, Email, Internet ....

Volume 5 Number 2, June 1998

  • A New Family Of Sundials With Conical Gnomon - Javier Moreno Bores
  • Under The Sun: An Outdoor Exhibition - Schechner Genuth/Brandmaier
  • Sightings.... - Fred Sawyer
  • Drawing Hour Lines With Elliptical Coordinates - Stephen Luecking
  • In Memoriam: Charles K. Aked - Fred Sawyer
  • De Temporibus - Dr. Robert Kellogg
  • Note On The Tiberius Horologium - Dr. Robert Kellogg
  • Digital Bonus: Wordplay & Roster - Dirk's Freeway Crew
  • Special Offer: NASS Books
  • Quiz Answer: Herbert's Correction - Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz: A Restored Village Dial - Rene J. Vinck
  • Quiz: An Analemmic Reflection - George L. McDowell, Jr.
  • Now You See It, Now You Don't - Don Petrie
  • Letters, Notes, Email, Internet ....

Volume 5 Number 1, March 1998

  • Robert Adzema's "Time By Light" - Harold & Ginny Brandmaier
  • Central Projection Analemmatic Sundials - Yvon Masse
  • Two Mean Time Analemmatic Sundials - Yvon Masse
  • Digital Bonus: An Experimenter's Kit
  • Sun Wheel - Stephen Luecking
  • Vertical Decliner By Dialing Scales And Schema - Fred Sawyer
  • Special Offer: Sciatheric Notes I
  • Special Offer: Equation Of Time Plaque
  • Construction Of A Terrella - A "Little Earth" - Allan D. Pratt
  • A Card Dial For Standard Time - William S. Maddux
  • Treasurer's Report, Conference News
  • Nominating Committee, BSS News
  • Quiz Answer: Nicole's Sunset - Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz: Herbert's Correction - Allan D. Pratt
  • Letters, Notes, Email, Internet ....

1997

Volume 4 Number 4, December 1997

  • The Team Disney Sundial - Ross McCluney
  • An Astronomical Instrument From Qumran - Avraham Avitzour
  • Error Analysis IX - Horizontal Sundial - T. J. Lauroesch and J. R. Edinger, Jr.
  • Quiz : Nicole's Sunset - Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz Answer: Emerson's Quest - Fred Sawyer
  • Towards A General Theory Of Dialing Scales - Fred Sawyer
  • Special Offer: Equation Of Time Plaque - Ron Anthony
  • In Memoriam : Ned Nye - David Shayt
  • Designing Multifaceted Sundials - Warren Thom
  • Sundial Design Software - Harold Brandmaier
  • Minutes Of The Annual General Meeting - Sara Schechner Genuth
  • Digital Bonus : Zonwvlak
  • Letters, Notes, Email, Internet ....

Volume 4 Number 3, September 1997

  • Floating Sundials From Down Under - S. Schechner Genuth, R. Terwilliger & N. Heckenberg
  • Quiz Answer: Hauxley's Challenge - Fred Sawyer
  • Psion Organizer - The Dialist's Friend - John Davis
  • Gnomonicum - A Multifaceted Sundial - Achim M. Loske
  • Digital Bonus - PLTMGR and POP
  • Error Analysis VIII - Horizontal Sundial - T. J. Lauroesch and J. R. Edinger, Jr.
  • The Sundial - A Poem - Author Unknown
  • Review: Denis Savoie's Gnomonique Moderne - Fred Sawyer
  • DCF - The Meridian On The Shortest Day - William S. Maddux
  • Quiz: Emerson's Quest - Fred Sawyer
  • In Memoriam
  • Letters, Notes, Email, Internet ....

Volume 4 Number 2, June 1997

  • The Tiberius Manuscript Horologium - R. Kellogg & M. Sullivan
  • The Portici Ham - Nicola Severino
  • Dialing With The Stereonet - Richard L. Threet
  • The Etched Glass Sundial - Casimir Piotrowski
  • Simplifying The EOT Correction - Allan D. Pratt
  • Another Midnight Lucubration - Rene J. Vinck
  • DCF: A Sundial For Erika - John Edelmann
  • Quiz: Hauxley's Challenge - Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz Answer: From Dial To Declination - Fred Sawyer
  • Digital Bonus: PCXdump

Volume 4 Number 1, March 1997

  • William Oughtred's Double Horizontal Dial - Fred Sawyer
  • Desc. & Use Of The Double Horizontall Dyall William Oughtred (1636)
  • Some Secret Motion Of The Earth - Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz : From Dial To Declination - Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz Answer : Mottoes - Lawrence E. Jones
  • Digital Bonus: Calculating The Hour Lines - Peter A. Lamont
  • Error Analysis Of The Horizontal Sundial - VII T.J. Lauroesch & J.R. Edinger, Jr.
  • NASS News: Call For Papers & BSS Dues Proj. - S. Schechner Genuth / H. Brandmaier
  • The Elliptical, Circular And Linear Dials II - Rene Vinck
  • Report On A Sundial Meeting In Seattle - Woody Sullivan
  • Letter On Final Causes - Robert Boyle
  • A Stained Glass Window Sundial - Lee & Joanne Bowden
  • Two Unusual Dialing Projects - Robert Terwilliger / Mac Oglesby
  • From The Tove's Nest - Fred Sawyer

1996

Volume 3 Number 4, December 1996

  • Second NASS Annual General Meeting - Sara Schechner Genuth
  • Selected Sundial Sayings - Lawrence E. Jones
  • Error Analysis VI, Horizontal Sundial - Lauroesch & Edinger
  • The Analemma In Verse - Tad Dunne
  • The Elliptical, Circular and Linear Dials, I - Rene Vinck
  • A Portable Astroid Dial - Fred Sawyer
  • Special Offer : A Portable Astroid Dial
  • An Equatorial Sundial For The U. Of Toronto - Ian R. Dalton
  • A Sundial For Claire - Mac Oglesby
  • Sundial Hunter's Kit : An Update Allan Pratt
  • Quiz Mottoes - Lawrence E. Jones
  • Upcoming Events
  • Quiz Answer : Crossword - Fred Sawyer
  • From The Tove's Nest - Fred Sawyer
  • Digital Bonus : A NASS Roster

Volume 3 Number 3, September 1996

  • The San Carlos Dial - Frank Onstine
  • "Tree with Equatorial Root" Sundials - Avriham Avitzour
  • Geographic Sundials - Fred Sawyer
  • Drawing Geographic Sundials - Jacques Oznanam (1673)
  • Error Analysis V, Horizontal Sundial - Lauroesch & Edinger
  • A Sundial Hunter's Kit - Stephen Woodbury
  • Design and Construction Forum: A Vertical Declining Sundial - Tom Shepard
  • Review: Harold Bradmaier's A Sundial for Your Garden - George McDowell
  • Digital Bonus: The Dialist's Companion
    • An introduction to the Dialist's Companion - Robert Terwilliger
    • The Dialist's Companion: Data Elements - Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz: NASS Crossword - Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz Answer: Photo Analysis - George McDowell

Volume 3 Number 2, June 1996

  • An Elias Allen Dial - Charles K. Aked
  • Second Annual NASS Conference - Fred Sawyer
  • The Sun - Dimensions And Dials - Don Petrie
  • Dialing On The Internet - Roderick Wall
  • Error Analysis IV, Horizontal Sundial - Lauroesch & Edinger
  • From The Tove's Nest - Fred Sawyer
  • The Analemma & Other Strange Words - Allan D. Pratt
  • The Sun's Inverted Rotation - Erwin Overkamp
  • Foster's Diametral Sundial - Fred Sawyer
  • Mechanical Dialing And A Laser Trigon - Robert Terwilliger
  • Quiz: Photo Analysis - George McDowell
  • Quiz: Canterbury Shadows - Fred Sawyer
  • Canterbury Addendum - Fred Sawyer
  • Digital Bonus : Ultimate Calculator

Volume 3 Number 1, March 1996

  • The Sundial On A Wet Day - Thomas Hardy
  • Doing It With Style - William S. Maddux
  • Sundial Operating Limits - Harold E. Brandmaier
  • Four Noons - Roderick Wall
  • A Sand Dial - Woody Sullivan
  • Error Analysis III - Horizontal Sundial - Lauroesch & Edinger
  • SunWeb - A Proposal - Joshua R. Smith
  • Design & Construction Forum: Q&A - Robert Terwilliger
  • Book Notice - The Stones Of Time - Fred Sawyer
  • Book Notice - Longitude - Tom Kreyche
  • A Kitchen Ceiling Analemma - Woody Sullivan
  • Logo Selection - Fred Sawyer
  • BSS Dues Project - Harold E. Brandmaier
  • Treasurer's Report 1995 - Robert Terwilliger
  • Sales Report 1995 - Fred Sawyer
  • Digital Bonus -
  • Quiz #8

1995

Volume 2 Number 4, December 1995

  • President's Column - Ross McCluney
  • The Waugh Dials - Lawrence E. Jones
  • Famous Sundials Of India - Harold E. Brandmaier
  • Lasers, Tomatoes and Oranges - Allan D. Pratt
  • From The Tove's Nest - Fred Sawyer
  • Error Analysis II, Horizontal Sundial - Lauroesch & Edinger
  • Sundial Twists Time - Carol Chorey, Daily Camera
  • Atmospheric Refraction - Fred Sawyer
  • Book Notice - Beginners' Guide To The Sun - Fred Sawyer
  • A Reflected Sundial - P.O. Taylor & N.L. Hendrickson
  • Design and Construction Forum: A Sundial For Maribor - Robert Adzema
  • Logo Selection - Fred Sawyer
  • Special Offer: The Art Of Sundial Construction
  • Digital Bonuses : Note and PrintGL
  • Quiz #7

Volume 2 Number 3, September 1995

  • The Swensen Sundial - Dr. John P.G. Shepherd
  • A True Digital Sundial - Dr. Robert L. Kellogg
  • A Little Brass - Edmund Fortier
  • Universal Horizontal Dialfaces - Fred Sawyer
  • Error Analysis, Horizontal Sundial I - Lauroesch & Edinger
  • Another Midnight Lucubration - Rene J. Vinck
  • Design and Construction Forum:
    • A Sundial To Enjoy - Mac Oglesby
    • Two Layout Tools - Robert Terwilliger
  • From The Tove's Nest - Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz #6
  • Digital Bonus : Graphica
  • Special Offer - Dialling Universal and Dialing Ruler

Volume 2 Number 2, June 1995

  • The Argument - Samuel Sturmy
  • A Conference Retrospective - Harold Brandmaier
  • Serle's Dialing Scales - Fred Sawyer
  • What Latitude Was It Designed For? - Steven Woodbury
  • The Druid Hill Park Polyhedral Dial - George McDowell
  • A Polyhedral Addendum - Fred Sawyer
  • A Tale of Three Noons - Allan Pratt
  • A Hill Town In New England - Charles H. Benjamin
  • Midnight Lucubrations - Fred Sawyer
  • Design and Construction Forum: Steel Armillary Dials - Frank Onstine
  • Minutes Of The Annual Meeting - Harold Brandmaier, Sec.
  • Quiz #5
  • Digital Bonus : EarthWatch
  • Sources Update: Books & Antiques
  • Societies Update: Austria & Belgium
  • Special Offer, Dialing Universal and Dialing Ruler

Volume 2 Number 1, March 1995

  • The Pomfret Dial - Lawrence E. Jones
  • Sundial Sources - Fred Sawyer
  • Treasurer's Report - 1994 Robert Terwilliger
  • Pedigree For An Alidade Dial - Fred Sawyer
  • A Timely Return, Horizons
  • Sun-Dials 1901 : An Excerpt - Alice Morse Earle
  • From The Tove's Nest - Fred Sawyer
  • Design and Construction Forum: Ave Amici - L. Papirius Cursor
  • Extreme Hours Of Sunlight - Fred Sawyer
  • Explaining The Equation Of Time - William S. Maddux
  • Big Dipper Time - Steven Woodbury
  • Designing A Nocturnal - Fred Sawyer
  • BSS Dues Project - Robert Terwilliger
  • Quiz #4 - Fred Sawyer
  • Digital Bonus
  • Letters
  • Special Offer, Zonwvlak
  • A Book Offering

1994

Volume 1 Number 4, December 1994

  • Chairman's Column - Ross McCluney
  • The Briggs Dial - A Personal Encounter - Ross McCluney
  • National Bureau Of Standards Sundial
  • Error In A Misplaced Sundial - Fred Sawyer
  • Implications Of Moving The Briggs Dial - Robert Terwilliger
  • Making A Polar Dial - Robert Terwilliger
  • Reducing A Plane To The Horizontal - Fred Sawyer
  • Digital Dials: Old Power, New Technologies - Allan Pratt
  • Book Reviews: - Fred Sawyer
    • Turner, Of Time & Measurement
    • O'Malley, Keeping Watch
  • Quiz #3 - Fred Sawyer
  • Digital Bonus
  • Call for Renewals - Allan Pratt
  • Voting Results
  • Annual Meeting
  • Quebec Info

Volume 1 Number 3, August 1994

  • A Choice of Sundial Books - Ross McCluney
  • Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
  • Solving the Spherical Triangle - Fred Sawyer
  • A Transparent Window Dial - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
  • A Stained Glass Diptych Pattern - Fred Sawyer
  • The Fuzziness of Solar Shadows - Ross McCluney
  • The William and Mary Sundial - George Crawford
  • NASS Represented At BSS Annual Meeting Jim Holland
  • From The Tove's Nest - Fred Sawyer
  • Quiz #2 - Fred Sawyer

Volume 1 Number 2, May 1994

  • Chairman's Column - Ross McCluney
  • Books on Demand - Fred Sawyer
  • Treasurer's Report - Robert Terwilliger
  • A Practical Lesson - Benjamin Franklin
  • Moon Dialing - Fred Sawyer
  • Making an Equatorial Dial - Robert Terwilliger
  • Sculptor Kate Pond - Fred Sawyer
  • J.G. Thew's Patented Sundial - Fred Sawyer
  • On A New Form Of Sundial (1758) - J.J. De Lalande
  • Quiz #1 - Fred Sawyer
  • Digital bonus : A NASS Clock and Icon

Volume 1 Number 1, February 1994

  • Greetings! - Ross McCluney
  • The Waugh Collection - Richard Schimmelpfeng
  • Carefree & Sun City, Arizona - Fred Sawyer
  • U.S. Sundial Patents in 1993 - Fred Sawyer
  • European Sundial Societies - Fred Sawyer
  • Calculating the Equation of Time - Sawyer & Terwilliger
  • Organization - McCluney, Sawyer & Terwilliger
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