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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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nges. It contains a systemof philosophy deduced from eight hexagrams whichwere copied from the lines on the back of a tortoise.Each represents some great power in nature, as fire,water, earth, etc. It is also regarded as a calendarof the lunar year. So important are the lessons ofthis book, so great is its wisdom, that Confuciusdeclared that could a hundred years be added to hisHfe he would devote them all to its study. A most suitable and perhaps the most dignifiedengraving for a dial-face is a chart showing the linesof latitude, signs of the zodiac, etc. Such a face is, 11 p/^flB 1 ■ ^ ^n^^H I^^H k ^?;H ^^H ^JSu-l ^^^^^^^1 ^H 1 mm^j^^m \ ^ 1 ^^^^Bt ^s^H vL *-■» I^H ^^HSk .^£Hm 1 (-r^Zj^^B 1 dkJ^^^^^^I ^^^^ J^^^kj^. .j^m Sk 1 -A ^^H^^^^^v ■m^^^^^^Hbk $^^ i i^i^l HB J ^^^^^ ^ C o o2 a,O 2 I c Symbolic Designs for Sun-dials 187 of course, a costly one, as the drawing must be madewith astronomical precision and copied by a skilledworkman. I give on page 187 such a dial-face from
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Dial-face with Lines of the Zodiac. Owned by Author. my collection. It is about ten inches square, offinest workmanship, dated 1812; a most attractivepiece of work. The dial on the church porch at i88 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday Eyam (facing page 64) shows the hnes of the tropicsand the equinoctial. On this page is given Captain Baileys fine dial,which tells the seasons. This dial exhibits beauti-fully, not only the comparative obliquity and direct-ness of the suns light,which is the primarycause of the seasons, butit also shows the rapidityof what in nautical termsis called the suns decli-nation and entry into thesigns of the zodiac. Asthe sun gets higher, thedials shadow goes down ;then it crawls from Can-cer up through Leo andVirgo to Libra, and so on.The signs of the zodiacare shown in bronze onthe pedestal of Mr. Reidsdial. Being an absolutesymbol of the progress oftime, they are a naturaland beautiful emblem forthe decoration of pedestal as well as dial-face, andhave appear

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