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 58
s to showthat the villa where it was found might very well have been Ciceros,worked out the calculations and explained the construction of the dial.Other writers on the same subject followed, and the Tusculan specimenhas ever since been quoted as the standing example of the hemicycle ofBerosus.… … ;|. ^^^^^^^•.u^-iisaiiiai, GREEK niAi.. I.EVPEN MUSEUM. Tiberius. The dial resembled the specimen which is figured above.It was of Travertine marble, hollowed and engraved in the manner justdescribed. The Kircher museum, in which it was placed, was after-wards transferred to the Collegio Romano,…
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