1. The Scatological Human Sundial

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    Unknown artist after Peter Flötner, Human Sundial, after 1540, woodcut. The British Museum, LondonUnknown artist after Peter Flötner, Human Sundial, after 1540, woodcut.  The British Museum, London

    Why bother buying a portable sundial (left) or using an hourglass (right) when you can tell time with your own personal human sundial?!?  That’s the satire behind this 16th-century print likely made in or around the city of Nuremberg, Germany.

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