Pictures of Sundials

in The Netherlands

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1 Sundial in Weert, Tromplaan, directly painted on the wall of the house.
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2 Enschede.
The oldest still excisting equation of time curve on a building in the Netherlands. 1836
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3 Middelburg, Stadschuur 2. Sundial with equation of time curves. The dial may be built in 1682, but the EoT curves are drawn in 1842, as is mentioned in literature about this dial.
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4 Modern horizontal sundial in private garden at Oosterbeek. Local suntime and for longitude corrected time.
The pattern is split to correct for the thickness of the style. Look at the declination lines.
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5 Vertical dial at Wassenaar, Hervormde Kerk, 1759.
In the middle azimuth lines are drawn.
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6 West facing dial at Oosthuizen with lines for declination ( red ), altitude( green ) and azimuth (green ).
The golden hourlines for local time are hardly visible on this picture.
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7 Den Haag / Loosduinen. A sundial made of wooden blocks.
The highest block in the middle is the style and casts its shadow each hour on one of the other blocks.
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8 Modern sundial on a private house near the harbour at Willemstad with Italian hours ( count down to sunset ), for longitude corrected hours and an equation of time curve ( on the substyle ) .
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9 and its predecessor on the nearby tower in the center of Willemstad, dated 1588.
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10 Sundial in clock museum at Schoonhoven, made by Van der Kraan, 1864.
It was built to serve as an accurate timepiece to set the tower clocks.
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11 Utrecht, Nicolaas church. South facing sundial.
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12 Double sundial at Nieuwersluis, near Utrecht. One dial is facing to south-east, the other to south-west.
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