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- 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).
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General Information: | 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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- Designer: Col. Jan Jazwinski P.E.
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- Builder: Czester Sadowiski
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- Construction Date: July, 1954
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