heliostat studies

This page collects documents, images, source codes and formulas about “heliostats”, “special mirrors” used to make solar light static while sun crosses the sky.

• Ancient mechanisms: spring-loaded heliostats (no electricity, no sensors, no chips!)
  • Descriptions, explanations, analyses,…
  • Images
  • Inventors
  • Sites
  • Documents
  • Sites archiving hundreds of ancient documents
    • Hathitrust
    • Gallica
    • Archive.org
    • [Google…