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 194
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 … Brass Equinoctial Dial. applied rather vaguely to any flat circular instrumentused for observation of the stars ; then it was re-stricted to the kind called the astrolabe planisphere,— I will not describe an astrolabe, as reference toany scientific dictionary or cyclopaedia will afford anexact…
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