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Provides an interesting lesson in horology of the past. Acknowledgements, reference, introduction, design parameters, the upper World dial plate, lower dial plate, latitude and longitude adjustment, functional art, direction of the meridian, setting the dial for a chosen latitude, finding local noon by the sun, adjustments required for the Sun Clock to provide Greenwich Mean Time, observing GMT at chosen World locations, the sun clock in use as a navigation instrument, a further example, equipment, materials, safety equipment, etching, metal finishing and polishing, metal patination, establishing provenance of the project, conclusion |