A RARE AND IMPORTANT ENGRAVED COPPER AND IRON SUNDIAL BY CHRISTOPHER COLLES NEW YORK, 1774-1816 The octagonal copper plate set with wrought-iron and laminated-copper gnomon and engraved with a chapter ring with arabic numerals and script letters indicating times in various foreign cities, the chapter ring centering the inscription Dum spectas fugio ("I fly while you watch"), enclosing bands engraved with months and numerals indicating minutes, with inscription Equation Table for Regulating Clocks, all enclosing a compass rose with inscriptions giving the key to the letters indicating midnight and noon in the following cities: Venice, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Madras, Canton, Paris, London, and Valencia; inscribed New York, Latitude 40 . . 40 Longitude 74 W of Lond Longest day 14H 55½ min, the center of the compass signed Chris Colles fecit No 42 Pearl Str New York, the reverse with scratch-engraved inscription I fly while you [ ? ] 8¾ in. square
A RARE AND IMPORTANT ENGRAVED COPPER AND IRON SUNDIAL BY CHRISTOPHER COLLES NEW YORK, 1774-1816 The octagonal copper plate set with wrought-iron and laminated-copper gnomon and engraved with a chapter ring with arabic numerals and script letters indicating times in various foreign cities, the chapter ring centering the inscription Dum spectas fugio ("I fly while you watch"), enclosing bands engraved with months and numerals indicating minutes, with inscription Equation Table for Regulating Clocks, all enclosing a compass rose with inscriptions giving the key to the letters indicating midnight and noon in the following cities: Venice, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Madras, Canton, Paris, London, and Valencia; inscribed New York, Latitude 40 . . 40 Longitude 74 W of Lond Longest day 14H 55½ min, the center of the compass signed Chris Colles fecit No 42 Pearl Str New York, the reverse with scratch-engraved inscription I fly while you [ ? ] 8¾ in. square
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