Sundials at Greenwich : a catalogue of the sundials, nocturnals, and horary quadrants in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich / Hester Higton ; with contributions from Silke Ackermann [and others].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press ; 2002Publisher: Greenwich, England : National Maritime Museum, 2002Edition: [1st edition]Description: x, 463 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198508778
  • 9780198508779
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Part one: Sundials in history -- 1. Sundials of the Far East / Kiyoshi Takada -- Essential complementarity: the sundial and the clock / Anthony Turner -- An obsession with dialling / Hester Higton -- Sundials and the arts / Richard Dunn. Part two: The catalogue -- 1. Direction dials -- 2. Altitude dials -- 3. Multiple dials -- 4. Miscellaneous dials -- 5. Horary quadrants -- 6. Islamic dials and quadrants --7. Dials from the Far East -- 8. Nocturnals -- 9. Imitations.
Summary: A catalogue of sundials held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, containing full entries on all items in the Museum's collection. All entries are illustrated, with the most significant in colour.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB215 .N37 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000051009

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: Sundials in history -- 1. Sundials of the Far East / Kiyoshi Takada -- Essential complementarity: the sundial and the clock / Anthony Turner -- An obsession with dialling / Hester Higton -- Sundials and the arts / Richard Dunn. Part two: The catalogue -- 1. Direction dials -- 2. Altitude dials -- 3. Multiple dials -- 4. Miscellaneous dials -- 5. Horary quadrants -- 6. Islamic dials and quadrants --7. Dials from the Far East -- 8. Nocturnals -- 9. Imitations.

A catalogue of sundials held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, containing full entries on all items in the Museum's collection. All entries are illustrated, with the most significant in colour.

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Massive, scholarly catalog of thesundials and nocturnals in the collection of the National Maritime Museeum in Greewich UK, 413 different instruments cataloged illustrated and described, bibliography, index

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