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 145
y engraved a handsome plate on which the tables of the equationof time are disposed in separate columns, according to the months,between flowers appropriate to the different seasons of the year. Thegnomons also can be made very ornamental, when pierced, or supportedby scrollwork of graceful design.… … CYLINDRICAL DIALS 115 more pedestal alone shall be noticed, and it is of a severely simplecharacter. In the first edition of The Book of Sundials, published 1872,Mrs. Gatty wrote: At St. Marys; the largest of the Scilly Isles, andnear the fort called Star Castle (if we remember the spot where…
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