Sorry if this duplicates what I placed on this list a short while ago but it seems it never arrived for some others. The draft programme for the forthcoming BSS Oxford Conference is now published - see below. Although we already have a record attendance planned, there are a few places left for any who might still wish to attend St Anne's College.
Anyone wishing to attend should contact the BSS Secretary, Doug Bateman in the first instance on :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] He will be pleased to answer any questions you may have. Patrick Powers ---------------------------------------------------------- The BSS Oxford Conference, 16-18 April, 2004 - Draft Programme Friday >From 9am Registration 10.00 -11.00 Coffee Welcoming address - Christopher St J H Daniel, Chairman of the BSS A Bird of Passage - Christopher St J H Daniel A Helical Polar Dial: Tampering With The Equation Of Time - Fred Sawyer, President of the North American Sundial Society. An Azimuthal Mean Time Dial - Silas Higgon 12.45 - 2.00 Lunch From Elegance to Diversity: The British Tradition In the Modern Québec Gnomonics - André E. Bouchard, General Secretary, La Commission des Cadrans solaires du Québec. Novel Sundials with Unique Features - Chris Lusby-Taylor 3.10 -.3.40 Tea 4.00 - 6.00 Reception and tour of the Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street 7.30 Dinner 9.00 Sundials in Japan and their practical use as urban landscape - Professor Masato Oki, Japan John Blagrave - Peter Ransom Saturday 9.00 Henry Wynne's Double Horizontal Dials - John Davis and Michael Lowne Norwegian Mass dials - Johan A Wikander 10.15 -11.00 Coffee plus exhibits and bookstall A Noon Dial on Glass - Douglas Bateman The gnomonic cylindrical box from Aquileia(Antoninus Pius - 2° century AD) - Paolo Albèri-Auber, Italy Andrew Somerville lecture Sundials of Scotland - Dr Ken MacKay 12.45 Lunch 2.00 - 6.00 Outings to Blenheim Palace, and David Harber and Joanna Migdal workshops 7.30 Banquet Speaker - our Patron, Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd Sunday 9.00 - 9.15 AGM Day into Night: the Italian-Hour Nocturnal - Professor Gerard L¹E Turner, President of the Scientific Instrument Society A Universal Graphical Method for the Design of Planar Sundials - Tony Belk 10.30 -11.00 Coffee The Austrian Sundial Society and old sundials in Austria - Mag. Walter Hofmann, Austria Sundials in Japan - Chiefly in Edo Period (AD. 1600 -- 1867)- Professor Akio Gotoh, President of the Japanese Sundial Society Stained Glass Sundials - John Carmichael, USA 12.45 Concluding remarks - Christopher Daniel 1.00 Lunch 1.40 Depart for walking tour and other departures 2.00-4.00 Walking tour (start and end at the Museum of History of Science) 4.30 - 5.00 Departures from St Anne¹s -
