• Start with a complicated vertical declining dial. This page breaks this complicated dial apart and illustrates many of the extra dial features dialists call "furniture".

• Six designs for a vertical dial on a board fence they all decline slightly east - along with the rest of the City of Miami.

• A not quite direct west vertical dial for the Ingram residence here in Coconut Grove. The dial has amalemmas on the hour lines, and includes the curves and signs for the Zodiac. The dial declines 88.5 degrees west of south (like the rest of Miami).

• A bronze horizontal dial giving a glimpse at the design process.

• An analemmatic dial for the Miami Museum of Science

• A design for a simple vertical dial for the Happy Kids Child Care Center here in Miami

• Studies for a declining reclining dial for the Dade Junior College Environmental Center

• A reversible equatorial dial

• A large two plane, or diptych dial

• A drawing of a room showing a mirror,
  reflecting sunlight onto a dial on the ceiling

Depictions of the Equation of Time

• An Equation Chart - Download it for reference.

• A mechanical device used in clocks with equation work, the kidney piece, essentially a circular equation chart.

Incidentals...

• Begone!

• Beware of one of them!

• The top face of a cube dial. 1.25" on a side. Includes altitude.

• An interesting declining dial with altitude and azimuth indications.

• A drawing of two tools for laying out analemmatic dials.

• A silly round dial with a big fat gnomon.

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