Sundial by Elias Allen

Sundial by Elias Allen

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The Clockmakers' Museum/Clarissa Bruce
© The Clockmakers’ Charity

A very high quality horizontal sundial, set out to show individual minutes and signed ‘Elias Allen fecit’. London, c.1630

The dial was calculated for a latitude of 53 N, a line running roughly from Mount Snowdon to the Wash. Extraordinarily, the dial contains a mistake. The 32 point compass rose, with each point individually named, is reversed.

Clockmakers' Museum No. 1243

Details

Category:
Clockmakers
Collection:
The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
Object Number:
L2015-4153
Measurements:
overall: 260 mm x 408 mm x 408 mm,
type:
sundial
credit:
Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers