I am doing some research on D. B. Sheahan, an Irish-born sculptor who lived and worked in New York City in the second half of the 19th century. His best known sculpture is a bronze bust of Thomas More in New York's Central Park. According to some sources, Sheahan made some monumental and wall sundials for college campuses on the eastern seaboard of the United States. I have looked in the Sundial Registry of NASS, but do not find any sundials of this sort attributed to him. The only dials known to me are the portable dials he made for friends, which are now in the Adler Planetarium's collection (which I am cataloguing).
Does anyone know of any fixed sundials made by Sheahan? I would be grateful to learn of them on or off the list. Thanks! Sara 42°21'N, 71°13'W Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D. David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments 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<mailto:sche...@fas.harvard.edu> http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi.html
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