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/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.altazimutharts.com/&k=AjZjj3dyY74kKL92lieHqQ%3D%3D%0A&r=Y3uaNkd%2BN%2BBEMo7BAxbEQqOqpMk6uxYnCJsB4uxugzo%3D%0A&m=Ti1oQOLKwbdeBp0MOcYibsxY4Lg058dCGKYBaRLSNUY%3D%0A&s=2f04b2f3647abf5da1ada6decaf1b455ea2d0ead01efe881489e14a7d1adb139> 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 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> |@SaraSchechner http://scholar.harvard.edu/saraschechner http://chsi.harvard.edu/
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