Sundials

A recreation of a diptych sundial, with informatio n on period examples of small portable sundials.

Sundials in Antiquity, and later sundials.

Here you will find some excellent metal detector finds made over the years.

A database of drawings and graphics of mechanical devices from Renaissance and late medieval sources.

Photographs and brief descriptions of sundials made of stained glass, from the early 16th century on.

A brief history of sundials, with an ivory diptych dial made in Nuremberg by Johann Gebhart in 1556.

An online exhibit on sundials in general, with a complete census of sundials throuhgout Florence and details of some of the sundials.

How the portable sundial evolved differently over time, and how different functions of the dials were incorporated into different markets.