Rev G Austen’s Sundial – Regency Gadgets!

The Herschel Museum of Astronomy

Debbie James, Curator of the Herschel Museum of Astronomy invites you to join her on a private viewing of the astronomical instruments in the museum, one very similar to that mentioned by Jane Austen in a letter to her brother Francis: – Green Park Buildings Tuesday 29th January 1805

My dearest Frank … found among our dear Father’s little personal property, a small astronomical Instrument …. It is I believe a Compass & Sun-dial, & is in a Black Chagreen Case….