When the sun dial became popular and still there were no mechanical clocks, a serie of portable dials arose and represented the culmination in the art of gnomonic. One of these dials is the Shepherd Dial, as they were the first in using them in its long days of pasturing. It belongs to the Sun Heigh Dial, since sun height determine time. The one reproduced by us, it is a retort of 1548 which is displayed in the Kunsthistoriches Museum of Vienna.....
Size: 155x50 mm