Berton Willard, _ Russell W. Porter_, pub. 1976, does have several pages on
dials.  His Garden Telescope can be used as a sundial.  There is a picture
on p203 of a dial  with a wire gnomon running between the tail and head of a
sculpted dolphin.  Adjustment for equation of time was provided, and the
entire unit was mounted in a spherical bowl, allowing adjustment for latitude.  
He experimented with using  lenses & prisms to project an image of the sun
onto the hour circle.  The image of the sun was aligned with crosshairs,
simultaneously viewing the hour circle.   Another dial used lenses & prisms
to project onto ground glass both the sun's image and part of the hour
circle (if I'm reading this correctly, p.205).
Pictured on p204 is a beautiful dial made inside a glass sphere.  The hour
circle is attached outside the glass, the analemma inside, and the sphere is
rotated until a lens cast the sun's image onto the equation  of time.  
He also made sunclocks, where the dial is turned to cast a shadow onto the
analemma, and via gears, clock hands indicate the time.  There is a photo of
one on p206.  The most accurate of these could tell time to within seconds.
Porter made at least 19 sundials and sunclocks.
The Aug. 1928 and Aug. 1935 Scientific American had an article by RP on
sundials.
The above information seems to have been written without seeing the actual
dials, so any mistakes are from that removal, and my own transcribing.
This is a fairly common book, it should be easy to find in libraries.
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the history of the telescope, the microscope,
   and the prism binocular

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