Sundials in Student's Court of Clementinum / Slunecní hodiny na Studentském nádvorí Klementina (Prague)
N 50° 05.189 E 014° 24.898
33U E 458147 N 5548410
The highest concentration of sundials in the Prague is surely in the Clementinum, the former Jesuit's College. The first two Baroque sundials you can find in so called "Students' Court" (Studentské nádvorí)...
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 06/02/2009
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In Students' Court you can see two splendid Baroque sundials (from 1658) on the Southern and the Eastern walls. Their styles are perpendicular to the walls and have noduses. They show three times at once: usual local apparent time (L.A.T.), time left from sunrise (so called Babylonian or Bohemian) and time left from sunset of the previous day (Italian). There are 3 declination lines on the dials. The Eastern sundial is decorated by a painting of a skeleton with a scythe and a sand-glass. The Southern one has a scene of an angel showing the Ten Commandments to a praying woman.