Sundial 567
- Dial City: Albuquerque
- Dial State/Province: New Mexico
- Dial Country: USA
- Lat: 35° 5.867' N
- Dial Nr: 567
- Dial Type: Vertical Dial
- Dial Access: Public
- Lon: 106° 39.883' W
- Dial Owner: City of Albuquerque
- Dial Designer: Gino Schiavone
- Dial Maker: Gino Schiavone
- Dial Date: 2003
- Location:
- Explora Children's Science Museum 1701 Mountain Road NW Albuquerque, NM
- Description:
- A vertical "Icarus Sundial" of bronze, copper and ceramic 86 inch high x 48 inch wide on a 30 inch high pedestal in front of the Explora science museum. The gnomon depicts Icarus falling; the back side depicts Icarus ascending toward the sun. The pedestal is placed within a 20 foot concrete circle showing a labyrinth defined by a sandblasted path of feathers.
- Inscription:
- "The shadow of my finger cast divides the future from the past Before it stand the unborn hour in darkness and beyond thy power Behind its unreturning line the vanished hour no longer thine One hour alone is in thy hand the now on which the shadow stands"
Last Update:
6/15/2013 21:34