Many of the following links and addresses are from various letters from the Sundial Mailing List. Since I have only dealt with a few of these companies, I cannot vouch for them as a group.

• Astrolabes
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  • Janus - Makes great custom astrolabes on laminated cardstock. Recommended.
  • Martin Brunold Astrolabes
  • Hands-On Astrolabe (4/1798)- Instructions for making a simple form of astrolabe.
  • Geoffrey Chaucer: A Treatise on the Astrolabe c.. 1391
  • Celestaire (4/17/98 -site very slow) supposedly sells a paper version of an astrolabe.
• Astronomical Data
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  • U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department (3/9/98)- This great site features a wide variety of data on-line, including sunrise and sunset times, lunar illumination and more.
  • Solar Calculator (3/9/98)- This is a simple on-line calculator creates 3d graphs of the suns path.
• Books
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  • Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (Book)
• Horology
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  • Gordon T. Uber (3/9/98)- Clocks and Time
• Link Pages
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  • Daniel Roth (3/9/98)- Maintains a large list of sundial related links.
• Software
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  • Indexes
    • Sundials on the Internet - Software (3/14/98)
    • Skypub (3/9/98)- The publisher of Sky and Telescope maintains a page with numerous astronomical shareware programs.
  • Various Platforms
    • Siennasoft (3/9/98)- makes Starry Night - a program which graphically simulates the sky, night or day.
  • PC
    • Zonwvlak (3/9/98)- This is a DOS based program for computing flat dials by Fer de Vries, of the Netherlands.
    • Skymap at http://www.execpc.com/~skymap - This now dead link was for a shareware app that calculated sun positions and other astronomical data.
    • Shadows by François Blateyron
    • Sundial Calculation Software (by Ferrari)
  • Mac
    • DA SketchPAD (3/9/98)- This freeware program makes numerical sun path calculations as part of a suite of tools for building designers.
• Sundials
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  • Commercial sundial maker in Spain
  • sundial pendants
  • Mario Arnaldi - "I construct little portable cylindrical sundials, if you are interested Ican sand you a photograph.
    
    Viale Leonardo, 82
    48020 Lido Adriano RA
    ITALY
    marnaldi@linknet.it
    
  • Felix Solis Tempus has prepared a catalog displaying 30 of the dials he sells. The catalog itself unfolds to form a noon mark dial. To obtain a copy, contact Robert Felix at Felix Solis Tempus, Gerbergasslein 10, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland (fax +41 61631 10 34).
  • Schoenwandt GmbH
    In den Haingaerten 5
    D-35469 NORDECK
    Germany
    
    Tel 06407/91030
    Fax 06407/910319
    "Produces all kinds of sundials as jewellery, made of brass or silver. So also ring-dials and similar"
  • Isabel Banus (Sa Botiga)
    Portal 8
    17320 - TOSSA DE MAR (Spain)
    Makes small dials. Member of the SOCIETAT CATALANA DE GNOMONICA.
  • Xavier Elias
    Bordeta 16
    17116 - CRUILLES (Spain)
    Makes small dials. Member of the SOCIETAT CATALANA DE GNOMONICA.
    If you are interested in astrolabes, clepsidres and Michnik sundials:
    
    Eduard Farre
    Sant Pau 10 (Monserrat Park)
    08294 - EL BRUC (Spain)
    Makes astrolabes, clepsidres and Michnik sundials: Members of the SOCIETAT CATALANA DE GNOMONICA.
  • Search Terms
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    • sundial (English), Sonnenuhr (German), cadrans solaire /
      gnomon (French), orologio solare / meridiana (Italian), zonnewijzer (Dutch), solur (Danish), reloj de sol / cuadrante solar (Spanish), rellotge de sol (Catalan), solur / solvisare (Swedish), aurinkokello (Finnish), solskive / solur (Norwegian), slunecní hodiny (Czech), napóra (Hungarian), zegar sloneczny (Polish), solnecnye casy (Russian), hidokei (Japanese), suncani (Yugoslavian)
  • Web Sites
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    • The Dutch Sundial Society (3/9/98)- This site by Fer de Vries has some pages in English and has his DOS sundial program for download.
    • www.sundials.co.uk - A British sundial site.
• Misc.
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  • Translations of Astronomy Terms