Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Group Project: History of Sundial (Draft)

 Topic: The history of sundial

Art format: One painting and one hand-made sundial 

Reference list:

[1] 2,000-year-old sundial unearthed in southern Turkey's Denizli, Daily Sabah, 20 March 2020

[2]: Archaeologists find Bronze Age sundial dating back more than 3,000 years Ancient Origins, 07 Oct 2013

[3]: Sundials: An Introduction to Their History, Design, and Construction From Hands-on history, a resource for teaching mathematics,  2007 J. L. Berggren, Simon Fraser University

[4]: Ancient Chinese Sundials Kehui Deng, 2015

[5]: A brief history of time measurement Feb 2011, University of Cambridge, By Leo Rogers

[6]: Short history of sundials European association for astronomy education

[7]: The mathematics of sundials Australian senior mathematics journal 22(1) Jill Vincent University of Melbourne

[8] http://cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php/Sundial  (sundial timeline)

[9] https://equation-of-time.info/sundials-with-shaped-styles

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1 comment:

  1. Susan GerofskyDecember 9, 2020 at 1:30 PM

    Wonderful topic and project! (I hope you might be able and willing to donate the sundial and painting to our UBC Scarfe Room 1211 collection of mathematical art....!)

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