The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887)
MacGibbon, David, d. 1902, Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 438
r end of which the ambassadors stand. These instruments are usedby Mr. Dickes to prove who the ambassadors were, being, as he makesout, the Counts Palatine—Otto Henry, born 1502, and his brother Philip.One of the instruments represented is the torquetum of Apian, by meansof which the position of… … PiG. 1589.—Woodhouselee.Front View. Fig. 1590.—Woodhouselee.Back View. SUNDIALS 424 SUNDIALS ments (1533), contains various figures, one of wliicli, reproduced byMr. Dickes, seems undoubtedly to indicate the source from which thelectern-shaped dial derives its origin ; it is simply an astronomical…
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