local solar time was the way we tracked time up until the second half of the 19th century | Photo: CCL Have you ever wondered why sundials in the Balearics (and the Spanish mainland) are invariably ...

SUNDIALS is a family of software packages providing robust and efficient time integrators and nonlinear solvers that can easily be incorporated into existing simulation codes. The packages are ...

Dr King has designed dozens of sundials around the world A self-confessed "time enthusiast" says getting young people to love sundials is an "uphill struggle". Dr Frank King, a Cambridge academic, is ...

In a row of tiny sheds housing mechanics, sign writers and engineers in Adelaide's northern suburb of Salisbury lies a workshop where precision engineering and art come together. John Ward and ...

On the edge of the Brecon Beacons, in a workshop nestled among the rolling hills of the Welsh border county of Monmouthshire, Border Sundials makes personalised sundials for clients all over the world ...

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