Languages: English. You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing [email protected] A very rare medieval pocket sundial has been discovered at an archaeological dig in Germany. Students at ...

Early scholars were quick to realize that the unprepossessing object was a sundial, though some experts argued that it was modeled after a water jug rather than a ham. The object was the pocket ...

Portable sundials date to antiquity, and by the 1600s, a few Europeans carried sundials that fit in the pocket. Some of these dials, like the one above, had a shadow-casting component (called the ...

Curator Peggy Kidwell solves the mystery of a pocket sundial from the 1600s Peggy Aldrich Kidwell and Sara J. Schechner First, a bit of background on sundials. From ancient times, people have used ...