. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Drawing in 14th Century Mss. of a Chilindre. shadow fell on the curved hour lines and showed thetime. Homan in his Vulgaria gave in 1520 a veryterse description of these dials, calling them in-struments like a hanging pillar with a tunge hangingout to know ye tyme of day. On this page is given a drawing from a four- Portable Sun-dials 123 teenth century treatise on the Chilindre which isnow preserved in the Arundel Mss. It is called init the travellers-dial ; full
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Drawing in 14th Century Mss. of a Chilindre. shadow fell on the curved hour lines and showed thetime. Homan in his Vulgaria gave in 1520 a veryterse description of these dials, calling them in-struments like a hanging pillar with a tunge hangingout to know ye tyme of day. On this page is given a drawing from a four- Portable Sun-dials 123 teenth century treatise on the Chilindre which isnow preserved in the Arundel Mss. It is called init the travellers-dial ; full and precise directionsare given, as for the wood to be used, which shouldbe very solid, imporous, equal, and without Two Boxwood and One Ivory Shepherds-dials. The markings and Hnes are carefully shown withexact directions for making them. The gnomon iscalled in this treatise a style or indicator, and couldbe made of copper, of silver with a bit of lead meltedon it; it worked on a pin fastened in the lid. 124 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday In the museum at Naples is the oldest portabledial known, and it is an adaptation of the was found at the excavations made in Hercula-neum in 1759. It is of bronze shaped like a ham,
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