For thousands of years, humans measured the passage of time using nothing but the shadows cast by the sun, a remarkable achievement that combined astronomy with precise mathematical calculations. When ...
Sometimes, the records of unassuming objects preserve curious stories. Over the past year, while trying to find out more about a small portable sundial in the museum's collection, curator Peggy ...
A very rare medieval pocket sundial has been discovered at an archaeological dig in Germany. Students at Marburg University had been excavating the site of a church in the town, when they found the ...
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