Sundial of the Sorbonne

Sundial of the Sorbonne - Paris - Sundial at Sorbonne, Paris - Sundial of the Sorbonne. (Paris, Veme) Dial built in 1676 by Abbe Jean Picard (1620 - 1682). The dial was retraced in 1898 by Charles Wolf, then director of the Paris Observatory, who added around the midday line an 8 curve allowing us to know the average hour. The style, of rare design, is punched with four holes whose centers occupy the vertices of a square. So it is the shadow, in the center of the square, that makes it possible to read the time. Above the dial, a gilding depicts Phebus leading the Sun's chariot. In the lower part, a bronze base-relief represents two angels, measuring the dimensions of the globe in a compress. The motto of the dial is “" Sicut umbra dies nostri "” (nowadays leak like shadow)