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3.5" Brass Sundial (Dollond)
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Our wooden-boxed brass sundial is a completely self-contained portable instrument, inspired by a design from the 18th century instrument maker Peter Dollond, founder of a great optical empire. The original is in the London Science Museum. Instruments like this were once used by explorers and navigators to tell the time anywhere in the world. For this to be possible, the gnomon, which casts the shadow, can be set for latitude on a sliding scale and the whole instrument oriented for direction by means of... more >>> |
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£30.00 |
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Armillary/Zodiac Sphere paperweight
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Armillary spheres were developed to aid scientific debate, with Earth representing the centre of the Universe in those made according to the Ptolemaic system, and with the Sun as centre in the (later) Copernican model. Our models are of 16th century Ptolemaic versions, so the central body represents the Earth, with the rings around it defining the firmament, or the sphere upon which the fixed stars and planets reside. The band going around the sphere, at an angle to the equator represents the Zodiac,... more >>> |
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£25.50 |
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Brass Pocket Sundial in Pouch
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Sundial for Travelling.
This brass pocket sundial is a completely self-contained portable instrument, with a compass for alignment and lid for protection. The gnomon is set for latitudes around 50 degrees North, so will be most accurate in the south of England, northern Europe, Canada and so on. At these latitudes this is a functioning time indicator (in as much as sundials ever were!) diameter 3", height 1". Chunky solid brass.
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£35.75 |
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Maritime Pocket Sundial
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Our version of the earliest time telling methods, find a sunny day and have some fun.
M. 9.5 x 9.5 x 2cm,
M. 3.75 x 3.75 x 0.75"
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£7.65 |
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Sundial and Compass
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Not that long ago people actually lived by sundial time. Every village and town functioned on local time, depending on local latitude. The arrival of trains and mail coach traffic created a need for coordinated time. Our travel sundial needs a compass to find north. Raising the triangular gnomon upright while pointing the compass needle North will show the time. The correct time will show only if the local latitude corresponds to angle of gnomon. Bronze dry compass, hand colored reproduction compass... more >>> |
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£38.00 |
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Universal Sundial (Butterfield)
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The horizontal sundial is characterized because its gnomon, the producer element of the shadow, is parallel to the Earth axis. This one is a replica of the one made by Michael Butterfield in 1700, whose originals are in the most important European museums.
Size: 95x110x60 mm
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£49.95 |
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