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" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 8 October 2016, 16:52
Subject: new work on European pocket dials in Colonial America
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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
[email protected]|@SaraSchechner http://scholar.harvard.edu/saraschechner
http://chsi.harvard.edu/
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