Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems (1902)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York; London : Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 145
lain the term usedin calendars and almanacs, clock-fast, clock-slow. Atmospheric refraction brings in another error indialling, since it alters the apparent position of the 90 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday sun, but this effect is very small and need not beconsidered in a sun-dial, which is,… … Dial-head of Centennial Dial. altered. Ordinary school-books and very common-place pupils show that in the early part of thatcentury navigation, land-surveying, and dialling wereuniversally taught. Now, few of the young whogo down upon the sea in ships know much ofthe mathematical side of their…
Sundials · Roses · Rosicrucians
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