Re: new work on European pocket dials in Colonial America

[John Davis]

Hi Sara,
Congratulations to you and your co-authors. I would look forward to reading it 
but the link you give to Brill shows the book at the horrendous price of $150 
and my previous experience with other titles in this Brill series is that the 
printing quality can be very poor and the pictures very 'muddy'. Do you know if 
this one is any better, please, and if there will be better prices elsewhere?
Regards,
John-- Dr J Davis
Flowton Dials http://www.flowton-dials.co.uk/
BSS Editor http://sundialsoc.org.uk/publications/the-bss-bulletin/


  From: "Schechner, Sara" <sche...@fas.harvard.edu>
 To: "sundial@uni-koeln.de" <sundial@uni-koeln.de> 
 Sent: Saturday, 8 October 2016, 16:52
 Subject: new work on European pocket dials in Colonial America
   
 Dear All,  
  I am excited to report the recent publication of my essay—really a monograph 
inside a book—concerning sundials used in colonial North and South America:     
  EUROPEAN POCKET SUNDIALS FOR COLONIAL USE IN AMERICAN TERRITORIES by Sara J. 
Schechner, in How Scientific Instruments Have Changed 
Hands(http://www.brill.com/products/book/how-scientific-instruments-have-changed-hands),
 edited by Alison Morrison-Low, Sara J. Schechner, and Paolo Brenni, Scientific 
Instruments and Collections 5 (Leiden: Brill, 2016).   The essay is 55 pages 
and well-illustrated by photographs and maps.     The work discusses the kinds 
of portable sundials brought to the Americas by European explorers and 
settlers, and how these were adapted for use there.  It describes who needed or 
desired the sundials, where they were produced, and what their geographical 
range was.   The monograph analyzes archaeological evidence, household and 
business inventories, and most importantly, the very rare extant pocket 
sundials strongly linked to remote forts, tribal lands, battlefields, slave 
plantations, and colonial administrative seats.  These sundials shed light on 
the relationship of Time to imperialism and the transmission of cartographic 
and ethnographic knowledge during the colonial period.    I hope that you will 
enjoy reading it!      Sara    Sara J. Schechner Altazimuth Arts 42°36'N   71° 
22'W West Newton, MA 02465 http://www.altazimutharts.com/    Sara J. Schechner, 
Ph.D. David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific 
Instruments Lecturer on the History of Science Department of the History of 
Science, Harvard University Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 
02138 Tel: 617-496-9542   |   Fax: 617-496-5932  
sche...@fas.harvard.edu|@SaraSchechner http://scholar.harvard.edu/saraschechner 
http://chsi.harvard.edu/       
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new work on European pocket dials in Colonial America

[Schechner, Sara]

Dear All,

I am excited to report the recent publication of my essay-really a monograph 
inside a book-concerning sundials used in colonial North and South America:

EUROPEAN POCKET SUNDIALS FOR COLONIAL USE IN AMERICAN TERRITORIES
by Sara J. Schechner, in How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands 
(http://www.brill.com/products/book/how-scientific-instruments-have-changed-hands),
 edited by Alison Morrison-Low, Sara J. Schechner, and Paolo Brenni, Scientific 
Instruments and Collections 5 (Leiden: Brill, 2016).   The essay is 55 pages 
and well-illustrated by photographs and maps.

The work discusses the kinds of portable sundials brought to the Americas by 
European explorers and settlers, and how these were adapted for use there.  It 
describes who needed or desired the sundials, where they were produced, and 
what their geographical range was.   The monograph analyzes archaeological 
evidence, household and business inventories, and most importantly, the very 
rare extant pocket sundials strongly linked to remote forts, tribal lands, 
battlefields, slave plantations, and colonial administrative seats.  These 
sundials shed light on the relationship of Time to imperialism and the 
transmission of cartographic and ethnographic knowledge during the colonial 
period.

I hope that you will enjoy reading it!

Sara

Sara J. Schechner
Altazimuth Arts
42°36'N   71° 22'W
West Newton, MA 02465
http://www.altazimutharts.com/

Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D.
David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific 
Instruments
Lecturer on the History of Science
Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617-496-9542   |   Fax: 617-496-5932
sche...@fas.harvard.edu |@SaraSchechner
http://scholar.harvard.edu/saraschechner
http://chsi.harvard.edu/


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