Sundial

Description

Brass double horizontal sundial by Henry Sutton, London, 1660, an early example of a Scottish client commissioning a London-made sundial for his property north of the border

Museum reference

T.1993.110

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Sundial

Production information

Sutton, Henry, c. 1637 - 1665, Instrument maker
London, England, Northern Europe

Date

1660

Materials

Brass

Physical description

Brass

Associations

Scotland, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Earth in Space (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

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natural world, earth in space »
space (telling the time)