. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . h be-sides the houres of all kinds diversely expressd. Amongst whichvery many Dialls, especially the Most Curious are new Inventionshitherto Divulgd to none. All these Particulars are Shortly yettClearly sett forth for the common good. — Title page of The Explication of The Diall Set up in the Kings Garden, An. i66g. Father Francis Hall. F DIALS we may form twoclasses, portable and dials have in thisbook a special chapter ; as doalso noon-marks or me
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . h be-sides the houres of all kinds diversely expressd. Amongst whichvery many Dialls, especially the Most Curious are new Inventionshitherto Divulgd to none. All these Particulars are Shortly yettClearly sett forth for the common good. — Title page of The Explication of The Diall Set up in the Kings Garden, An. i66g. Father Francis Hall. F DIALS we may form twoclasses, portable and dials have in thisbook a special chapter ; as doalso noon-marks or meridianlines and spot-dials, ceiling-dials, and window-dials whichare not in one sense separateobjects. Other dials will beclassed according to the divisions of Messrs. Rossand McGibbon, as formulated in their volume onScottish sun-dials in their book of several volumes,entitled The Castellated and Domestic Architecture ofScotland. The sun-dials of Scotland are the finestin the world, and this noble book is worthy its sub-ject. About two hundred Scottish sun-dials aredescribed in it, and thus a clear idea is given of the 6i. 6i Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday art of dial-making of the sixteenth to the nineteenthcentury, as practised in Scotland. I am glad toadopt in general the simple and lucid classificationof sun-dials as arranged by these two skilled andlearned architects, and to use somewhat their wordsin describing the classes. The first division is intotwo great classes, the attached and the detached;the former being, as the name would imply, displayedupon the walls of some building, and often of slightimportance in the general scheme of the edifice;while the second class, dials standing on their ownspecial pedestals, are often of much monumentalimportance. The attached dials are divided intosix classes : — 1. Single-faced dials. 2. Dials with two faces placed generally on cor-ners of buildings. 3. Dials with two or more faces projected oncorbels. 4. Terminal dials. 5
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