Unpublished paper, 'On the hour lines of the ancients' by W A [William Archibald] Cadell
Reference number: AP/10/4
Date: 1830
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Cadell writes on sundials and the division of time between sunrise and sunset into twelve hours, a practice used by the ancient Greeks and Romans. He studies sundials held in the British Museum collections, some part of the Elgin Marbles, analysing in particular how the hour lines are drawn.
Corrections and annotations appear throughout in graphite and ink.
Subject: Anthropology
Marked as received by the Royal Society on 18 July 1830 with the initials PMR [Peter Mark Roget]. Read 23 December 1830.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the hour lines of the ancients'.
- Reference number
- AP/10/4
- Earliest possible date
- 1830
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 14 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Archibald Cadell, Unpublished paper, 'On the hour lines of the ancients' by W A [William Archibald] Cadell, 1830, AP/10/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_10_4/unpublished-paper-on-the-hour-lines-of-the-ancients-by-w-a-william-archibald-cadell, accessed on 14 June 2026
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Date: 31st December 1837
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0006
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