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 92
mottofor these window-dials: while thou lookest iFLY. Arthur Young, in his Six IVeeks Tours^ tellsof two window-dials at the Rectory, North-hill, Bed-fordshire. He says that the fly had the wingspainted on one side of the glass, and the body andlegs on the other, so to deceive fully the… … Window-dial at Kersal Cell, Manchester, England. that this was each mans own shadow as thrown onthe ground ; long in the morning and at night, andshort at midday, and that he measured it with hisown foot, as did the Malays in Madagascar. The early successors of the noon-mark, such asthe water-clock…
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