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 223
edtumbler, a knitting needle, and a slip of cardboard.This is a surprisingly accurate timekeeper. Some very fine and exact portable dials are manu-factured to-day. Flechets universal sun-dial, shownon page 159, is of great value to a traveller orexplorer. It will be seen by any student of dials… … Japanese Pocket-dial. Portable Sun-dials 159 tion of the axis, the latitude of the plane can bedetermined ; then of course the instrument can beadjusted to give the exact time of that place. A very interesting dial is sold in London whichwas devised by General Oliver, and the portable formis known…
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