H ESTER H IGTON, with contributions from Silke Ackermann, Richard Dunn, Kiyoshi Takada and Anthony Turner, Sundials at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Sundials, Horary Quadrants and Nocturnals in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press and National Maritime Museum, 2002. Pp. x+463. ISBN 0-19-850877-8. £99.50 [Book Review]

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