Sundials come out of the shadows
It’s a somewhat secret visit, in search of some sunny treasures.
The walls of Dijon are engraved with dozens of sundials, vestiges of passing time, without being noticed.
This visit proposes to take them out of their shadow, and that we take their time.
A stroll with an astronomer in the air of the eighteenth century, in the wake of the Festival of the Sun, launched in 1904 by Gustave Eiffel and Camille Flammarion and taken over by the Astronomical Society of Burgundy.
The walls of Dijon are engraved with dozens of sundials, vestiges of passing time, without being noticed.
This visit proposes to take them out of their shadow, and that we take their time.
A stroll with an astronomer in the air of the eighteenth century, in the wake of the Festival of the Sun, launched in 1904 by Gustave Eiffel and Camille Flammarion and taken over by the Astronomical Society of Burgundy.