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Polyhedral Dial
Signed by Hans Tucher
Dated 1596; Nuremberg
Ivory and gilt brass; 82 x 58 x 54 mm

Hans Tucher (or Ducher) generally worked in ivory and, like many of the Nuremberg sundial makers, usually made diptych dials. This ivory polyhedral dial is an unusual product from his workshop.

The faces of the rectangular parallelepiped carry no fewer than five sundials of different types, and a lunar volvelle (now incomplete) for finding solar time when the light of the moon creates the shadow on a dial.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 55574

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