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 183
top, and with a gnomon hingedupon the side of the stopper. The cylinder isdivided into month spaces on the circumference. When in use, the stopper was taken out and thegnomon turned around, so it hung over the desired 122 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday month space or line. Then the dial was hung… … Drawing in 14th Century Mss. of a Chilindre. shadow fell on the curved hour lines and showed thetime. Homan in his Vulgaria gave in 1520 a veryterse description of these dials, calling them in-struments like a hanging pillar with a tunge hangingout to know ye tyme of day. On this page is given a…
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