Underwood, Loring · Boston, Little Brown, and company · leaf 96
nce. It seemedso mysterious, this sentinel of light, that itmade a lasting impression in which thegarden figured as a little fairy world. A sun-dial is divided into two parts, thedial face and the gnomon, or style, thatprojects at an angle from the face andmarks the time by the shadow it casts.Its… … THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES and twenty-one minutes if the dial is totell the time in Boston, Massachusetts.Of course the accuracy of the dial as atimekeeper depends on other fixed rules.The spacing of the hour marks must becarefully computed for different latitudes,and the gnomon should point to…
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