Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16174

    Reversed sundial

    Date
    ca.1667
    Creator
    John Marke (1636, British) , Instrument maker
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p219r
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 355mm
    width (page): 325mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Double horizontal sundial plate, inscribed ‘Johannes Marke Londini fecit. 1667’. The dial’s longitude value (51 degrees 32 minutes) indicates that the instrument was intended to be used in the vicinity of London.

    This paper contains two images (recto and verso), both reversed-out and therefore printed from the engraved instrument itself. The recto version is crisper than the verso print.

    Engraving found among the papers or Robert Boyle.
    Related fellows
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
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