Towards a History from Antiquity to the Renaissance of Sundials and Other Instruments for Reckoning Time by the Sun and Stars H ESTER H IGTON, Sundials—An Illustrated History of Portable Dials. London: Philip Wilson, 2001. Reviewed by D AVID A. K ING, Institute for the History of Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, D‐60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany H ESTER H IGTON, with contributions from S ILKE A CKERMANN, R ICHARD D UNN, K IYOSHI T AKADA and A NTHONY T URNER, Sundials at Greenwich—A Catalogue of the Sundials, Horary Quadrants and Nocturnals in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, and Greenwich: National Maritime Museum, 2002 [Book Review]

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