. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . o Ww o X e o 3PS Classification of Sun-dials 79 facets on which sun-dials are formed, cup-shaped,heart-shaped, or flat. This sphere or head is usuallyattached to the pedestal by a small pivot or Queen Marys Dial, Holyrood Castle. This shape perhaps affords to us the most beau-tiful of ancient and modern dials. One of themost interesting of all facet-headed dials, and onefrom which many others have been shaped, is called 8o Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday- Qu
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . o Ww o X e o 3PS Classification of Sun-dials 79 facets on which sun-dials are formed, cup-shaped,heart-shaped, or flat. This sphere or head is usuallyattached to the pedestal by a small pivot or Queen Marys Dial, Holyrood Castle. This shape perhaps affords to us the most beau-tiful of ancient and modern dials. One of themost interesting of all facet-headed dials, and onefrom which many others have been shaped, is called 8o Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday- Queen Marys Dial at Holyrood Castle, Scot-land, see page 79. It is said to have been thegift of Charles I to his Queen Henrietta Maria,and was a costly token ; for in the accounts of theMaster of Works it is shown that the sum of ^408,15^. 6d. was paid to the mason and his servants for hewing of the diyell, and £66 13^. 5^. to alimner for gilding and engraving the dial. Thedial stands with its base ten feet three inches high,and after lying for a long time in an apparentlyruined condition, was repaired and reset by order ofOueen Victoria. The facets of the dial-head havesinkings of many shapes, — heart-shaped, cup-shaped,triangular, square, — and the gnomons have manyforms, one a grotesque face profile, another a Thist
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