by CCash | Aug 24, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
Museum number 1850,0713.14 Design for a clock-salt, comprising hour-glass, sundial and compass for which there is a separate study at l; hourglass in a case on a pedestal, legs with satyrs, at top two putti, pointing to a metal arc which serves as a sundial, their...
by CCash | Aug 17, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
Johannes Stradanus: Clockmaker’s workshop (The Invention of the Mechanical Clock), from the “Nova Reperta” series of engravings (New Inventions of Modern Times), ca. 1591 We’ve been hunting and finally found the Great Shrewsbury Clock (Or at least one we believe is...
by CCash | Aug 10, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
The London Sundial based on photo of Whitehead Derby dial. Image by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent. (www.clemrutter.net) Continuing our series on Shakespeare and Clocks this month, we are exploring one traditional aspect of the Tudor Knot Garden that was as functional...
by CCash | Aug 3, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
Clock tower marking the center of town in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. Image by Deitmar Rabich, 2013, Public Domain. Source From Falstaff in his flame coloured taffeta being admonished by Henry V for being so superfluous to demand the time of the day, to the Chorus...
by CCash | Jul 27, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
Sphinx. Attic red-figure pyxis, 2nd half of the 5th century BC. From Nola (Italy). Source William Shakespeare only uses the word “Sphinx” in one single line, in one single play, (that I could find), but he references several wreathed-up snakes and puzzled...
by CCash | Jul 20, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
William Shakespeare uses the word “basilisk” in Parts 2 and 3 of Henry VI, in Henry IV Part 1, as well as in Cymbeline, Richard III, Henry V, and a Winter’s Tale. The references themselves are not incredibly descriptive, but demonstrate that his audience had an...
