30th Apr 2012✧14:32202 notes
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mediumaevum: Monstrance Clock or Mirror Clock, ca. 1570Made in Nuremberg, GermanyCase of gilt bronze; dial of gilt brass; movement of steel In addition to showing the hours, the astrolabe dial of this clock (parts of which are now missing) was made to indicate the apparent motions of twenty-three stars in the northern hemisphere, the position of the sun and the moon in the zodiac, the astrological houses of heaven, and the age and phase of the moon in its monthly cycle. The recessed ring encircling the chapter of hours gives the day of the year, saints’ days, and other calendrical information for the period beginning in 1570 and ending in 1610. The dial on top is for setting the alarm. The inclusion of a clock such as this one in a Kunstkammer would have demonstrated the owner’s familiarity with cosmology, astronomy, and astrology. i love all the information contained in this object
26th Jan 2012✧20:09318 notes
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firsttimeuser: Vanity by Ladislav Postupa
16th Jan 2012✧16:40168 notes
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ingridrichter: The Witching Hour by Augustus Thomas, 1908. so good, aside from the fact that i don’t recall 2:00 being the witching hour.
17th Dec 2011✧09:441,036 notes
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hyperealism: Allegory of Fortune, January 8, 1900. An allegory in ‘Jugend’ art magazine, which depicts a blindfolded woman representing Fortune, holding the horn of abundence and pushing forward the hands of time, 1900. —- Image by © Leonard de Selva/CORBIS another stunner from jugend
10th Dec 2011✧14:40136 notes
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To Everything There Is A Season, Leo & Diane Dillon
21st Nov 2011✧19:3557 notes
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A sundial on St. Mary’s Basilica, Kraków, Poland (1954)
14th Oct 2011✧17:2121 notes
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Skeleton Clock, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1860
14th Oct 2011✧14:4016 notes
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Black Forest Cuckoo Clock (Jagdstueck), 1900, Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Furtwangen
14th Oct 2011✧14:1628 notes
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Derby Sundial C 5810.JPWhitehurst & Son Sundial, 1812
7th Oct 2011✧07:5710 notes
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Opaque  by  andbamnan