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[[File:Podkładka pod piwo z zegarem słonecznym.jpg|thumb|upright=.9|left|An artifact in the collection of Przypkowski Museum which reflects two of Tadeusz Przypkowski's passions: gnomonics and gastronomy. It's a beer coaster adorned with the coat of arms of the town of Jędrzejów and equipped with a folding gnomon, or pointer, which can turn it into a sundial.]]
When in Jędrzejów, Przypkowski helped his father collect, research and design sundials. After his father's death, he took the maintenance of the collection, housed in a small private museum located next to the town square, over from him. He went on to become one of the world's foremost gnomonists, or sundial specialists. The sundials placed in some historic landmarks, including St. Mary's Basilica in Cracow, the Royal Castle in Warsaw and the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, are of his design.
Janusz Roszko, a journalist who was a close friend of Przypkowski's, described him as ``the last nobleman of the Polish Commonwealth", who ``swapped the sabre for a scholar's umbrella", ``wore his suit as aloofly as if it were a 17th-century gentleman's robe" and "every now and then rose a pinch of snuff to his mustachioed face".<ref>''Ibid.''</ref><ref>{{Cyt