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 98
oldest knownconstruction for observing the winds, but a similarpillar covered with copper was at Constantinople ;both of these towers had weather-vanes. For a timeit would seem that only important buildings, chieflychurches, carried vanes. In France in the twelfthcentury none but noblemen could… … Tower of the Winds, Athens. Noon-marks, Spot-dials, Window-dials 59 ships appear, and these have vanes on the masts.Anemoscopes, to show the duration of the wind, andanemometers, to measure its force, have been inventedin many shapes ; one resembled a wind-mill. Bothinstruments were in use in…
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