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 224
in-stead of a straight one.The meridional andequatorial arcs are ad-justable, and havescrews for fixing themat any given altitude.The shadow of thisperfected gnomon fallson the equatorial circle. This dial and gnomon arean adaptation of the principle used in the cannon-dial shown on page 49. An… … Flechets Universal Sun-dial. i6o Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday This card-dial deserves to be looked upon as somethingmore than a mere toy. Its ingenuity and scientific accuracygive it an educational value which is not to be measured bythe roughness of the results obtained. This card-dial,…
Sundials · Roses · Rosicrucians
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