Towards a History from Antiquity to the Renaissance of Sundials and Other Instruments for Reckoning Time by the Sun and Stars
HESTER HIGTON, Sundials—An Illustrated History of Portable Dials. London: Philip Wilson, 2001.
Reviewed by
DAVID A. KING, Institute for the History of Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, D‐60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
HESTER HIGTON, with contributions from SILKE ACKERMANN, RICHARD DUNN, KIYOSHI TAKADA and ANTHONY TURNER, Sundials at Greenwich—A Catalogue of the Sundials, Horary Quadrants and Nocturnals in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, and Greenwich: National Maritime Museum, 2002.

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