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 213
d astronomer, gave it as his reason for constructingthese ereat buildings, that he had found the brass astronomical instru-ments untrustworthy from their small size, the want of division intominutes, the shaking of their axles, and the displacement of the centreof their circles and the shifting of… … ^ij-iLxwp. ARAB DIAL. VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. It is said that the Emperor Mahmoud Shah gave the Rajah the titleof Sawai, =: one and a quarter, to .show that he was a quartermore excellent than any of his contemporaries. He arranged a seriesof astronomical tables, which are still used by the…
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