The book of sun-dials; originally compiled by the late Mrs. Alfred Gatty; now enl. and re-edited by H. K. F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd (1900)
Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809-1873, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty, Lloyd, Eleanor, Evans, Lewis · London, G. Bell · leaf 119
ntioned, made by NicholasCratcher, or Kratzer, for the garden at Corpus Christi College, Oxford,probably in some year between 1520 and 1530. The date of its removalis not known, but thanks to Robert Hegge, a scholar of Corpus in 1614,and a prodigy of his time, says Wood, for forward and good… … KRAiyERS LHAI., CORPUS CHRISIICOLLECIK CARDKNS. RENAISSANCE DIALS, DETACHED 91 Robert Hegge left behind him several MS. works, including twocopiesof a treatise on dials and dialling. He thus describes Kratzers dial : In this beautiful Alter (on w^ Art has Sacrificed such varietie ofInvention to the…
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