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 45
after the year 1500. In Englandwe have recorded in the book of disbursements of Sir Thomas Lucas,solicitor-general to Henry VII., that he paid xx for a dial set on mybruge, at Little Saxham in Suffolk in 1505 ; and in France the church ofRouelles, Normandy, still shows a two-faced dial of the same… … INTRODUCTION 21 influence in our own country, for to him can be traced one of the earHestof those detached or monumental dials which afterwards took suchcurious and beautiful forms, especially in Scotland, and were workedout with all sorts of ingenious arranq-ements of lines and hollows. It was in…
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