Show GREAT SUN DIAL IN DELHI I Fall JI THOU Marble Am Art Marking the Time limmie to Minutes I world worl I i is isal The largest larges sun dial lIlal In iii the lie at al Delhi in lu India lC Dr lr Wem of or the he I Royal Hoyal A Astronomical Institute in Berlin Delfin Del Bee fin lin has recently completed the difficult l cult task ask of making a model of this thi I gigantic piece of or work worl About 1651 1650 I time the the t exact date Is not known known JaI Jal Sing II 11 Influenced probably by till the hit Jt Jesuits erected at D Delhi Benares and amid other places observatories the time rums luin of which still It III exist The natives s Know k little tittle or nothing of tho lie m meaning of or these ruins anti and reports of ot lI English h travelers o of the thc eighteenth century give the lie un only I definite Information at hand as to I the lie form forni nn and Use of oC thit mural Instruments The peculiarity of or work this his giving ln It II a n. unique position among amonA the a astronomical as as- monuments of time the world Is that wall and mil tire are one nile One Ouie of or tile the lie It Is one of or the ol oldest est which have t been heen pre preserved lv ll tho lie oldest l in iii Europe being the lie Leyden Leden observatory b I built buill In 1 32 63 2 anti and here heie wi-re wi determined i tJ the e obliquity of or the lie ecliptic the lie length and amid breadth declination a and amid 1111 position of 01 the lines line A narrow of stone steps iii like a ladder parallel Hh the axis of tf If tilt the earth Il leads ht upward Its supporting sup suit ul porting t ing ival walls is a arv tc smooth ama marble marble- and time the shadow hallow falls falli upon lIOn great marble and left arcs built out at Ht time Ihu right a and marks mark the thC time when tie the sun Run IH Ix shining to lo minutes Galleries anti and steps shIi allow access from all skies sides lle The lime platforms of or the building were ell once use used probably for fOI smaller portable port port- able tubie which have fallen failen to lo pieces l Before the Iho year car 1800 Englishmen found the building used for horse stalls tall This equatorial gnomon is II about 58 68 feet high the lie length of the lie circle about 19 HI fl foot feet ot Near It stand stam the tIme of an aim obliquely Inclined astronomical as ns- construction whose purpose Is unknown The Tho observations seem to have been longer continued qt at Benares the time ro residence resi iesi l- l deuce dence of the tIme great ll Moguls At least Dr was va able guided by Information mation from English lIsh sources of the time eighteenth century to recon reconstruct some somo summit small Instruments which were en still known at lint time lime limit In iii Benares |