Annals of industry and genius . ^, makingSir Jamess house my home at his desire. Here the ingenious lad soon found new exercisefor his wits :— Two laro-e cflobular stones stood on PAINTING THE GLOBES. 293. FERGUSON PAINTING THE GLOBES. the top of Ills gate, on one of them T painted with oilcolours, a map of the terrestrial globe, and on theother a map of the celestial. Ihe poles of the 294 AMONG THE STARS. painted globes stood toward the poles of the heavens;on each the twenty-four hours were placed aroundthe equinoctial, so as to show the time of daj-when the sun shone out by the boundary whe
Annals of industry and genius . ^, makingSir Jamess house my home at his desire. Here the ingenious lad soon found new exercisefor his wits :— Two laro-e cflobular stones stood on PAINTING THE GLOBES. 293. FERGUSON PAINTING THE GLOBES. the top of Ills gate, on one of them T painted with oilcolours, a map of the terrestrial globe, and on theother a map of the celestial. Ihe poles of the 294 AMONG THE STARS. painted globes stood toward the poles of the heavens;on each the twenty-four hours were placed aroundthe equinoctial, so as to show the time of daj-when the sun shone out by the boundary where thehalf of the globe, at any time enlightened by thesun, was parted from the other half in the shade,the enlightened parts of the terrestrial globe answer-ing to the like enlightened parts of the earth at alltimes. So that, whenever the sun shone on theglobe, one might see to what places the sun was thenrising, to what places it was setting, and all theplaces where it was then day or night throughoutthe earth. While Ferguson was staying at Sir James Dun-bars, that kind and generous patron introduced himto his sister. Lady Dipple. This lady asked him ifhe thought he could make patterns for needle
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