page_title: Francis Line
section_title: Dial at Whitehall Palace
hierarchical_section_title: Francis Line / Dial at Whitehall Palace
caption_attribution_description: English: Elevation of a dial created by Francis Line for the Whitehall Palace garden of Charles II of England.
context_page_description: Francis Line, also known as Linus of Liège, was a Jesuit priest and scientist. He is known for inventing a magnetic clock. He is noted as a contemporary critic of the theories and work of Isaac Newton. He also challenged Robert Boyle and his law of gases.
context_section_description: Line created a dial for Charles II in 1669. It was fully described in An Explication of the Diall (1673). It stood on a pedestal, and consisted of six parts, rising one above the other, with multitudes of planes cut on each, which were dials for the purposes of geography, astrology, and astronomy. It was smashed by the Earl of Rochester and drunken friends in 1675.
caption: Francis Line's dial for Whitehall Palace, illustration copied from a work by William Leybourn
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