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 69
in Greece, by Dr. Clarke, 1818. ^ Vol. i., p. 231. 42 SUN-DIALS almost entirely built of stones from the old Greek ruins. It wasdestroyed by an earthquake in 1889. A vertical dial of the same type was discovered at Herculaneum.This was divided into twelve hour spaces, the numbering letters… … ROMAN DIALS. VILLA SCIPIO. ants of Herculaneum probably spent them in taking their siesta. Anengraving of this dial in The Literary Gazette shows a triangularmetal gnomon, but possibly this may have been an addition made bythe copyist. The excavations at the Villa Scipio in the same neighbourhood…
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