Boyd, who has died aged 82, was Conservative MP for Morecambe and its hinterland from 1979 to 1997, a junior Foreign Office ...

The Sundials first came together last semester when Pandey and Lucas Washburn ’24 decided they wanted to put together a performance for Gigs on the Green. At the time, Pandey, Washburn and their ...

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Not far away is St Katharine Cree church. Of all London’s sundials, this is among the most atmospheric and aged. Over 300 years ago it was carved into the church wall facing Leadenhall Street.

Two portable sundials of considerable interest have recently been acquired and placed on exhibition in the Time Measurement Section of the Science Museum. The first is an ivory column or ‘pillar ...

The first sundials were simply stakes placed in the ground that indicated time by the length and direction of the resulting shadow. As early as 1500 B.C., the Egyptians had developed a more ...

The problem: Sundials must be tailor-made for their location, and generic antique reproductions are not. Instead, they are built typically to show time at a latitude of 40 degrees, roughly the ...