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Sundial by Elias Allen, c.1630
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:
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overall: 260 mm x 408 mm x 408 mm,
- type:
- sundial
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
