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Checkpoint Charlie
'A Perilous Passage'
with a girl in the foreground
holds a sword and spiked wheel
The Isaac Newton sundial mb-code IA05b Checkpoint CharlieDrawing 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