Message from Clocktime's creator There’s no better time of the year to enjoy a sundial than on a sunny midsummer’s day! Pictured above with me is my partner Gayle Wells and the splendid sculptural creation by Lady Joanna, known as both Lady White and Joanna Migdal to many of you! This wonderful work of art is technically extremely advanced because it has two graticules, so that just after the equinox in the autumn, I can swap to another one so that the sundial is supremely accurate 365 days of the year. There are four screws in the sphere of the concave moon which can be easily undone for the swapping over of the sundial’s face. A magical wand serves as the highly accurate gnomon. Lady Joanna herself did all of the engraving by hand, which is a major achievement given the sundial’s spherical background. The inscription on the base is from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: This lanthorn doth the horned moon present; Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be. The words are spoken by Starveling, the tailor, when he is playing the part of Moonshine in the play performed for Theseus and Hippolyta. He is holding a lantern to represent the moon. You can discover more about telling the time before the pendulum clock on the Clocktime Digital Museum website.
