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Sundials (Shire Library, Band 176) - Softcover

Daniel, Christopher St. J. H.

 
9780747805588: Sundials (Shire Library, Band 176)

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For over a thousand years, sundials have played an important role in regulating the daily life of mankind throughout Europe and the British Isles.

This compact guide describes and illustrates each particular type of dial to be found in the UK on buildings and in churchyards, public squares, private gardens and remote countryside locations.

Add to your Shire Library with this slim volume, ideal for collectors or those looking for a quaint, nostalgic look into times past.

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Christopher Daniel worked as the Head of the Department of Museum Services at the National Maritime Museum, before embarking upon his current career as a sundial designer in 1986. His works include the famous dolphin sundial at Greenwich, the reconstructed vertical sundial at HM Tower of London, the Sir Francis Drake commemorative stained glass sundial in Buckland Abbey; and the equinoctial armillary sundial in Windsor. He has been the chairman of the British Sundial Society for over twenty years.

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