The Kelvin Sundial in front of the main building of Glasgow University. It consists of a stone globe which originally had multiple gnomons (the bit that casts the shadow) and dials, which appear to tell the concurrent time in different parts of the world. It also features a quote in Latin which translates as "I only count the bright hours".
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Dating from the mid-1800s (making it older than the university buildings themselves), it's thought to have been made by William Thomson, better known as Lord Kelvin, or his father James Thomson. It was originally sited in the garden of Torridon House in Bearsden and was bequeathed to the university in 1964.
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It's in a rather poor state of repair, with the main sundial on the top missing, and most of the subsiduary gnomons either missing or broken, but it's still a rather interesting example of a Scottish sundial, of which there are surprsingly many.
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