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 221
ion ofthe day is the same, but it was probably not made until about thefifth century. The hour lines were originally inlaid with silver, butmuch of this is now wanting, as well as the gnomon and the attach-ment for suspending the dial. This class of dial, in which the hour lines are drawn on a… … PU.LAR DIAL, 17TH CENTURY (scale, I). Roniischc Sonncnuhrcn aus Aquileia, \ienna, 1880. PORTABLE SUN-DIALS 187 the Kalendar, or Chilindre on which treatises are extant writtenin this country as early as the thirteenth century. These dials, also called column, pillar, or Shepherds dials,were small…
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