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 229
other quadrant dials the time isshown by a bead, which can be moved up and down a plumb-linehanging from the centre of the quadrant, the bead being adjusted to theday of the month, in the calendar on the edge of the quadrant, andplaced at the point where the day-line crosses the twelve oclock line… … (,)UAUK.\NT MAliE FOR Kit HAKJ) II. (SCALE, |). which were in use up to the end of the last century even in thiscountry. The dial, in the shape of an ancient ship with turrets at each end,which was probably made in Germany at the end of the fifteenthcentury, has also a bead on a plumb-line to show…
Sundials
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