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 72
on about the Aqui-leian discoveries, considers this dial to bean example of the lacunar named byVitruvius, as well as of the disms inplanitia, and also judged it to be theearliest known amenoscope where thenames of the winds are given in Latin. A fragment of a very similar wind andsun-dial was… … WIND AND SUN DIAL. ROME. F. Peter, Di un antica orologio solare, 1815. 46 SUN-DIALS on it in Greek, and as it was made of Pentilic marble from quarrieswhich were owned by Herod Atticus, Signor Peter, who wrote on thesubject, concluded that it had belonged to Herods villa, which was littlemore than…
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