The Programme of Contributions given at the BSS 3 day conference, 5-7th April 2013
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The BSS Conference, Edinburgh, 5-7 April 2013
Contributions and Contributors
Friday 5th April Makers discuss their dials:
David Brown – “Making a slate dial”
Timothy Chalk – “Sculptural dials in modern materials”
Alastair Hunter – “It takes a little time” Martin Jenkins –“ A Cooke-type heliochronometer” A wonderful recreation of an extraordinary heliochronometer
Fred Sawyer – “Projected refraction sundials with ambigram”
Saturday 6th April Kevin Karney – “Competition! The place in history of sundials in context with other timekeepers” A study of dials over the ages Frank King – “Francesco Bianchini, a study in fuzz (or what John Heilbron didn’t tell you)” How a huge Italian meridian line was calibrated to measure the moment of the Equinox Tony Moss –“A transatlantic sundial from a Hollandaise Source” The making of a Samuel Holland Replica dial – for a different place Denis Cowan – “In the footsteps of Thomas Ross” A photographer searching out some favourite dials from this maker
Sunday 7th April Frank Evans – “Conservation of an 18thC dial on a church” Living with the problems of crumbling stone and lime mortar! John Davis – “Robert Spurrell’s calendric dials” Discovery of a relatively unknown but fascinating diallist Fred Sawyer – “An excursion in nomography” Using the mathematics of nomography to understand a dial and make others Doug Bateman – “Mobile Apps for the sundialist” New apps for iPads Alastair Hunter – The Duncraggan Stone” An intriguing stone dial dated 1666 and its eventual restoration Tony Freeth – “The Antikythera Mechanism” The story of the amazing geared analogue computer from c200BC. ***Some of these papers will appear in the BSS Bulletin. Why not
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