Richard Talbert is a Cambridge Classics graduate who taught in the United Kingdom and Canada before becoming Kenan Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has established the Ancient World Mapping Center. His many books include The Senate of Imperial Rome, the collaborative Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, and Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered.

• List of Figures and Maps Abbreviations Chapter 1 Sundials and their Place in the Roman Empire Sundial Environment Sundial Thinking Portable Sundials: Types and FunctioningChapter 2 The Geographical Portable Sundials Illustrated and Described Presentation Format Rome, no. 1 Kircher Museum, no. 2 Memphis, no. 3 Aquileia, no. 4 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/Wien, no. 5 Crêt-Châtelard, no. 6 Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, no. 7 Aphrodisias, no. 8 Samos, no. 9 Time Museum, no. 10 Philippi, no. 11 Science Museum, London, no. 12 Vignacourt/Berteaucourt-les-Dames, no. 13 Mérida, no. 14 British Museum, London, no. 15 Balkans, no. 16 Chapter 3 Geographical Awareness and Worldviews Names Figures: The Concept of Latitude Figures: The Concept of Latitude Applied Distinguishing Homonymous Cities Comparative Frameworks and Orientation Latitude and WorldviewChapter 4 A Community of Diallers ? Time-Telling: Margins of Error Table: Time Museum, no. 10, and British Museum, London, no. 15 Criteria for the Choice of Names The Appeal of the Object The Spreading of Knowledge and Related Attractions Time-Telling Needs Conclusion: A Community of Diallers ?Chapter 5 Post-Classical Comparisons The Astrolabe The Navicula and 'Regiomontanus' Types Nuremberg Sundials Scottish Stone Sundials The Twentieth Century and BeyondAppendix The Aquincum Fragment: A Sundial-Maker's Manual ? GazetteerTable of Latitudes and LocationsBibliography Ancient and Medieval Texts and Inscriptions Modern ScholarshipArt CreditsIndex

It is useful to think of this book as the historical counterpart of what in literary studies would be the first major scholarly edition and commentary on a recently discovered text. Talbert writes (p. xiii): 'My hope is that the book will both enlighten and intrigue readers across disciplines by uncovering a fresh, imaginative vision of the world shared by what might be termed a loose community of Romans.' Mission accomplished.

Richard Talbert is a Cambridge Classics graduate who taught in the United Kingdom and Canada before becoming Kenan Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has established the Ancient World Mapping Center. His many books include The Senate of Imperial Rome, the collaborative Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, and Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered.

• List of Figures and Maps Abbreviations Chapter 1 Sundials and their Place in the Roman Empire Sundial Environment Sundial Thinking Portable Sundials: Types and FunctioningChapter 2 The Geographical Portable Sundials Illustrated and Described Presentation Format Rome, no. 1 Kircher Museum, no. 2 Memphis, no. 3 Aquileia, no. 4 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/Wien, no. 5 Crêt-Châtelard, no. 6 Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, no. 7 Aphrodisias, no. 8 Samos, no. 9 Time Museum, no. 10 Philippi, no. 11 Science Museum, London, no. 12 Vignacourt/Berteaucourt-les-Dames, no. 13 Mérida, no. 14 British Museum, London, no. 15 Balkans, no. 16 Chapter 3 Geographical Awareness and Worldviews Names Figures: The Concept of Latitude Figures: The Concept of Latitude Applied Distinguishing Homonymous Cities Comparative Frameworks and Orientation Latitude and WorldviewChapter 4 A Community of Diallers ? Time-Telling: Margins of Error Table: Time Museum, no. 10, and British Museum, London, no. 15 Criteria for the Choice of Names The Appeal of the Object The Spreading of Knowledge and Related Attractions Time-Telling Needs Conclusion: A Community of Diallers ?Chapter 5 Post-Classical Comparisons The Astrolabe The Navicula and 'Regiomontanus' Types Nuremberg Sundials Scottish Stone Sundials The Twentieth Century and BeyondAppendix The Aquincum Fragment: A Sundial-Maker's Manual ? GazetteerTable of Latitudes and LocationsBibliography Ancient and Medieval Texts and Inscriptions Modern ScholarshipArt CreditsIndex

It is useful to think of this book as the historical counterpart of what in literary studies would be the first major scholarly edition and commentary on a recently discovered text. Talbert writes (p. xiii): 'My hope is that the book will both enlighten and intrigue readers across disciplines by uncovering a fresh, imaginative vision of the world shared by what might be termed a loose community of Romans.' Mission accomplished.

Richard Talbert is a Cambridge Classics graduate who taught in the United Kingdom and Canada before becoming Kenan Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has established the Ancient World Mapping Center. His many books include The Senate of Imperial Rome, the collaborative Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, and Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered.

• List of Figures and Maps Abbreviations Chapter 1 Sundials and their Place in the Roman Empire Sundial Environment Sundial Thinking Portable Sundials: Types and FunctioningChapter 2 The Geographical Portable Sundials Illustrated and Described Presentation Format Rome, no. 1 Kircher Museum, no. 2 Memphis, no. 3 Aquileia, no. 4 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/Wien, no. 5 Crêt-Châtelard, no. 6 Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, no. 7 Aphrodisias, no. 8 Samos, no. 9 Time Museum, no. 10 Philippi, no. 11 Science Museum, London, no. 12 Vignacourt/Berteaucourt-les-Dames, no. 13 Mérida, no. 14 British Museum, London, no. 15 Balkans, no. 16 Chapter 3 Geographical Awareness and Worldviews Names Figures: The Concept of Latitude Figures: The Concept of Latitude Applied Distinguishing Homonymous Cities Comparative Frameworks and Orientation Latitude and WorldviewChapter 4 A Community of Diallers ? Time-Telling: Margins of Error Table: Time Museum, no. 10, and British Museum, London, no. 15 Criteria for the Choice of Names The Appeal of the Object The Spreading of Knowledge and Related Attractions Time-Telling Needs Conclusion: A Community of Diallers ?Chapter 5 Post-Classical Comparisons The Astrolabe The Navicula and 'Regiomontanus' Types Nuremberg Sundials Scottish Stone Sundials The Twentieth Century and BeyondAppendix The Aquincum Fragment: A Sundial-Maker's Manual ? GazetteerTable of Latitudes and LocationsBibliography Ancient and Medieval Texts and Inscriptions Modern ScholarshipArt CreditsIndex

It is useful to think of this book as the historical counterpart of what in literary studies would be the first major scholarly edition and commentary on a recently discovered text. Talbert writes (p. xiii): 'My hope is that the book will both enlighten and intrigue readers across disciplines by uncovering a fresh, imaginative vision of the world shared by what might be termed a loose community of Romans.' Mission accomplished.