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 184
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 drawing from a four- Portable Sun-dials 123 teenth century treatise on the Chilindre which… … Two Boxwood and One Ivory Shepherds-dials. The markings and Hnes are carefully shown withexact directions for making them. The gnomon iscalled in this treatise a style or indicator, and couldbe made of copper, of silver with a bit of lead meltedon it; it worked on a pin fastened in the lid. 124…
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