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 221
tructionis singular, butits action veryaccurate. A nee-dlelike gnomon is mounted on a cross-bar, andcasts its shadow on a semicircular sheet of brassbeneath it. In diaUing the Chinese never accomplished any-thing, for they had scant and very deficient knowl-edge of astronomy and mathematics, though… … Brass Portable Dial. Maker, G. F. Brander. Portable Sun-dials 157 Mohammedans, not through the Jesuits, as somewriters have supposed. A few modern dials maybe seen in public offices, all made under thedirection of missionaries of the Roman CatholicChurch. From remote antiquity the manufacture of…
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