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 225
time, and all probably equally common ;Out of the ring-dial arose various forms of flat dials, as, for instance,the very pretty disc-shaped hanging dial of gilt brass and silver, madeabout the year 1700 in Germany, which has a dial with the motto, Ouasvis hora mortis indicina on one side of it, and… … DISC DIAL, FRENCHREPUBLIC (scale, |-). The little leaden dial, which is of the same type, is interesting, bothas being a reproduction on a fiat surface of the simplest form of ring-dial, and also because it is the only dial I knowgiving the names of the months as devised byFabre DEglantine and…
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