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 84
h rules as these was young Newton alluredto try his skill. Leybournes rules for making win-dow-dials and reflective-dials are very clear and easyto understand. An extraordinary ceiling-dial was made by SirChristopher Wren when but a mere boy; it must berecalled that dialling was then a part, not… … Window-dial, Leybournes Dialling, Noon-marks, Spot-dials, Window-dials 47 thus acquired a knowledge both of mathematics tomake this ceiling-dial, and of Latin for the inscrip-tion, which, translated, reads thus : — Chr. Wren : One who was content to depict upon thisnarrow ceiling the pattern of the…
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