Hello Dialist, I have been looking forward to reading comments about the NASS meeting on this mail list. I have quoted the announcement to see any reactions. I enjoyed the weekend very much. The variety was good. It included interesting history, solutions to design and dial building problems, and a lot of interesting people. The rain was disappointing but my pictures came out better than expected.
The shareware computer program "The Dialist Companion" has been a new toy along with the "any" latitude dial. I estimated the moment of winter to be December 21 at 7:52:16 CST with the computer companion. I have also produced the Foster Dial with the world map that was in the last issue of the Compendium (3-3). It came out pretty neat. I want to enlarge it and mount it. Cheers, Warren Frederick W. Sawyer III wrote: > The North American Sundial Society > 2nd Annual Conference September 27-28, 1996 > at the > Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology > at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. > Tentative plans call for visiting dials at Pearson Airport, > Toronto City Hall, Casa Loma, Victoria College, The School of > Engineering and Hart House. > > Lectures include Samuel Foster of Gresham College - Fred Sawyer, > Historic Sundials As Evidence Of Consumer Culture - Sara Schechner > Genuth, A Mean Time Equatorial Dial With Analemmic Gnomon - E.J. > Buckler, The Horologium In The Tiberius Manuscript - Robert Kellogg, > A Portable Astroid Dial - Fred Sawyer, Sundial Design With > Matrices - Harold Brandmaier, The Sundial Of Merbaka Church - > M.E. Mickelson, Sundials On The Internet - Piers Nicholson, > Designing A Vertical Decliner - Tom Shepard.