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How cosmic time
was kept in Korea


A stone sundial without contextual information
that's situated near the Jongmyo Royal Shrine.




A bronze sundial (angbu ilgu) from the Joseon (Chosun) Dynasty




A celestial globe (honsang) reconstructed
from an original design made during the reign
of King Sejong. It's located near the entrance
of Sejong's burial grounds here in Yeoju.



An Joseon period astrolabe (honcheonui)
at King Sejong's burial grounds





Two more sundials at Sejong's tomb



A two-sided black granite stele with star maps
(cheonsangyeolchabunyajido) from 1395 and 1433