Sundial adjustment directions

Identifier: Wisdom 3
Title: Sundial adjustment directions
Description: This item is a set of images designed to help the reader to adjust their sundial to measure time correctly. The audience is specific to New England, Barbados, Jamaica, Virginia and Carolina. These directions were novel in the sense that that they were a direct result of the England's imperial growth; as such they were the first of their kind. They show that empire had expanded into different time zones and sent their people further than they ever had before. England was now a huge actor on the global stage and its citizens abroad were growing accustomed to the new power. The fact that the book that it was in, "A History of New-England. From the English Planting in the Yeere 1628. Untill the Yeere 1652", was so widely disseminated provides evidence for this growing acceptance. This item is an interesting footnote in the early growth of Imperial England.
Creator: Edward Johnson
Date Created: undated
Publisher: England: printed for Nath: Brooke at the Angel in Corn-hill
Bibliographic Citation: Johnson, Edward. A History of New-England. From the English Planting in the Yeere 1628. Untill the Yeere 1652. Declaring the Form of Their Government, Civill, Military, and Ecclesiastique. Their Wars with the Indians, Their Troubles with the Gortonists, and Other Heretiq. England: printed for Nath: Brooke at the Angel in Corn-hill, n.d.