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 227
met, the arched double gnomonbeing regulated exactly as in the last dial, and the hour circles set forlatitude by the little quadrant between them, so that they also willadjust themselves to the plane of the equator, while the graduatedquadrant will point north, and the engraved star at its base… … GERMAN DIAL, I 7 13 (scale, i). PORTABLE SUN-DIALS ■93 nection between Roman and recent dials, are much less often met withthan the universal ring dial, which was a kind of armillary sphereconstructed on similar principles to these dials, and was in general useover Europe from the beginning of the…
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