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Title: Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
Subjects: Sundials Roses Rosicrucians
Publisher: New York London : Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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Master Cyrus to make you adial by them. He will need nothing but a protractor, or aline of chords and dividers. A dial of size, say of fromtwelve inches to two feet square, is the cheapest and mostaccurate measure of time for general use, and would I sup-pose be more common if every one possessed the properhorary lines for his own latitude. Williamsburg being verynearly in the parallel of the Poplar Forest, the calculationsnow sent would serve for all the counties in the line be-tween that place and this, for your own place. New Lon-don, and Lynchburg in this neighborhood. Slate, as beingless affected by the sun, is preferable to wood or metal, andneeds but a saw and plane to prepare it, and a knife pointto mark the lines and figures. If worth the trouble, you 9^ Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday will, of course, use the paper enclosed ; if not, some ofyour neighbors may wish to do it, and the effect to be ofsome use to you will strengthen the assurances of my greatesteem and respect.
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Centennial Sun-dial. The Construction of Sun-dials 93 Many boys even in that century studied diallingat school — not so many in America, for we hadour cheap Connecticut clocks so early in our his-tory, and used them so widely; but in GreatBritain dialling was taught, especially in Scotland.Burns says in an autobiographical letter, that hewas sent to a noted school to learn mensuration,surveying, dialling, etc. Hugh Wilson at the sametime not only learned dialling, but practised it, andone of his dials still may be seen at Fenwick, near Fal-kirk. The art of dial-making seems to have been themode at certain times in various localities. Perhapssome man of note or influence awakened a specialinterest in the vicinity of his residence. Sometimesa gravestone cutter with a pretty taste for noveltiesturned his tools to dial-making on dull winter days. The student was not haled on by old mathemati-cal treatises with any thought of its being an easytask to make a sun-dial. He was warned that h

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