Pocket watches are all well and good, but they have some caveats. They either need regular rewinding, or they need batteries. Sundials on the other hand need only the light from our One True Sun. [… ...

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 ...

French pioneers wandering North America in the 1700s didn't carry cellphones in their pockets. Instead, they might have carried small pocket sundials. Those ancient devices used the direction and ...

Pocket sundial by Bourgaud of Nantes, 1660–1675. () NMAH Sometimes, the records of unassuming objects preserve curious storiesOver the past year, while trying to find out more about a small ...

Ancient Sundial Shaped Like Ham Was Roman Pocket Watch. A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock." ...

Check out Kerry Shrives’ appraisal of a French brass pocket sundial with compass, ca. 1700, in Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, Hour 1. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

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 ...

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Curator Peggy Kidwell solves the mystery of a pocket sundial from the 1600s Peggy Aldrich Kidwell and Sara J. Schechner First, a bit of background on sundials. From ancient times, people have used ...