Polyhedral Sundial

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TitlePolyhedral Sundial

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1544

Object typePrint

MaterialsWoodcut

Dimensions11.61 × 7.76 × 1.5 in. (29.5 × 19.7 × 3.8 cm)

LocationHoughton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Accession numberf GC5 M8895 537fb

SubjectsPolyhedraSundials in artScientific apparatus and instruments in art

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Measurement

Susan Dackerman (Editor)

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

~~In his final years, Albrecht Dürer published two treatises—Underweysung der Messung (Instructions on measurement) and Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion (Four books on human proportion)—as textbooks for artists and other practitioners who lacked adequate training in geometry and technical...

Author

Susan Dackerman (Editor)

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.229-265

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097.012

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16366&redirecttoanchor=22594

Chapter subject tags:Prints, European--16th centuryEurope--Intellectual life--16th centuryPrints, RenaissanceDürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528Art and natural history--Europe--History--16th centuryAnatomy, Artistic--RenaissanceArt and science--Europe--History--16th century

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