Dear Friends, In June 2016, I attended a symposium on the Science of Time. The proceedings have now been published by Springer, and are available for free download here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-59909-0
The Science of Time 2016: Time in Astronomy & Society, Past, Present and Future Edited by Elisa Felicitas Arias, Ludwig Combrinck, Pavel Gabor, Catherine Hohenkerk, and P. Kenneth Seidelmann. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 50. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2017 Many articles may be of interest to this group, but in particular there are two articles on sundials. I list them below along with direct links ot the PDFs: Geoff Parsons: "The Development and Use of the Pilkington and Gibbs Heliochronometer and Sol Horometer" https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-59909-0_7.pdf Sara J. Schechner: "These Are Not Your Mother's Sundials: Or, Time and Astronomy's Authority" https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-59909-0_8.pdf Happy reading! Sara Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D. David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Lecturer on the History of Science Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617-496-9542 | Fax: 617-495-3344 | sche...@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:sche...@fas.harvard.edu> |@SaraSchechner http://scholar.harvard.edu/saraschechner http://chsi.harvard.edu/
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