Sundial, Bronze sculpture at Adler Planetarium, Chicago, US
The sundial consists of two intersecting bronze semicircles with a slim rod that casts shadows to indicate the current time during daylight hours.
The B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund commissioned this sculpture in 1980 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus's birth.
Henry Moore created this functional art piece titled 'Man Enters the Cosmos' as part of Chicago's public art collection near Lake Michigan.
Visitors can find the sundial outside the Adler Planetarium, where a plaque provides instructions to adjust time calculations for the Earth's axial tilt.
The sculpture measures 13 feet tall and functions as a bowstring equatorial sundial, allowing different sections of the gnomon to mark time throughout the year.
Location: Chicago
Inception: 1980
Creator: Henry Moore
Made from material: bronze
GPS coordinates: 41.86626,-87.60737
Latest update: May 11, 2025 03:32
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