Renaissance Sundials: A Paper Tool Making Workshop
Renaissance Sundials: A Paper Tool Making Workshop
During the Renaissance, paper sundials were made as a way to measure time using the sun's position, although fewer survive today compared with those made of metal, wood, and other more durable materials. Stern Center Director Earle Havens and paper conservator Jennifer Jarvis will share rare examples of paper sundials from the Sheridan Libraries’ special collections and provide hands-on instruction in making and using a facsimile 17th-century paper sundial.
FREE. All supplies will be provided. Participants will take home their sundial creation.
Space is very limited and priority will be given to Johns Hopkins faculty, postdocs, and grad students. Please email sterncenter@jhu.edu for more information and to register.
The Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance was established with a permanent endowment in 2017 to support lectures, fellowships, master classes, symposia, and publications related to the Sheridan Libraries' premodern and early modern rare book and manuscript collections. The center’s focus encompasses the historical reception of classical and medieval thought and the culture and influence of the Renaissance throughout the early modern period.