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 193
y calculated and made.These he made and sold, as hedid orreries, cometariums, astro-nomical clocks, and sun-dials.He had a mechanical ratherthan a mathematical mind; andit may uphold us in our mechanical rather thanmathematical modes of constructing sun-dials toknow that Ferguson never was able to… … Wooden Block Dial, with Paper Figures; 1780. Portable Sun-dials 131 dials of various kinds to use in his lectures on dial-ling. An interesting one of his inventions is shownon a succeeding page. The astrolabe was well known in Persia, Arabia,and India at an early day. Originally the word was
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