The Isaac Newton sundial mb-code IA05b Mr Punch pokes gentle fun

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The Isaac Newton sundial mb-code IA05b Mr Punch pokes gentle funDrawing of the stone sundial said to have been cut by Sir Isaac Newton, shown in its presentation box. The box lid is open, with a print of Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire (its original location) on the inner lid. The work is inscribed in pencil: "Solar Dial made by Sir Isaac Newton, when a boy, at Woolsthorpe." Drawn for an article by Herbert Rix (1850 1906), assistant secretary of the Royal Society. The illustration was made to be engraved by the