Sundial 639
- Dial City: Windsor
- Dial State/Province: Ontario
- Dial Country: Canada
- Lat: 42° 17.700' N
- Dial Nr: 639
- Dial Type: Vertical Dial
- Dial Access: Public
- Lon: 83° 1.400' W
- Dial Owner: City of Windsor
- Dial Designer: Col. Jan Jazwinski P.E.
- Dial Maker: Czester Sadowiski
- Dial Date: July, 1954
- Location:
- Jackson Park Ouellette Avenue at Tecumseh Road East Windsor
- Description:
- Two vertical bronze-on-masonry dials on adjacent faces upper faces of a square, 25 foot high tower. Dial faces are aligned approximately SE and SW. A bronze armillary sphere is placed atop the tower. The tower and sundials were designed and built by the Windsor Polish community and dedicated in the Windsor centennial year in memory of M. Kopernik (Copernicus).
- Inscription:
- ASTORLABIUM & SUNDIAL OF M. KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS) 1473-1543 "FATHER OF MODERN ASTRONOMY" POLISH ASTRONOMER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CRACOW WHO CALCULATED THE BASIC FUNDAMENTALS OF MODERN ASTRONOMY IN HIS WORK "DE REVOLUTIONIBUS ORBIUM CELESTIUM" 1543
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