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This work compiles historical discussion, practical guidance, and artistic renderings related to sundials. It opens with a popular history considering origins and varieties of dials, follows with technical notes on placement and gnomonics, and includes photographs and faithful sketches of surviving examples. A large poetic section offers hundreds of short verses, mottoes, and themed poems accompanied by sketches intended to fit the age of each dial. Additional material lists names and locations of extant sundials, an index to sketches and verses, and examples of garden and architectural sundials from makers. The tone blends antiquarian curiosity, practical instruction, and creative celebration of timekeeping.

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Title: Ye Sundial Booke

Author: T. Geoffrey W. Henslow

Release date: March 24, 2019 [eBook #59118]

Language: English

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Ye
SUNDIAL BOOKE

By
T. GEOFFREY W. HENSLOW, M.A.
London
1914.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED