This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... says, "The gnomon is the gnow-man or know-man of a diall, the shadow whereof pointeth out the howers." From this comes the word gnomonics, or as it once was spelled gnomonicks, the art or science of dialling; and various other words, such as gnomonist, one versed in dialling, and gnomonology, a treatise on dialling. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... says, "The gnomon is the gnow-man or know-man of a diall, the shadow whereof pointeth out the howers." From this comes the word gnomonics, or as it once was spelled gnomonicks, the art or science of dialling; and various other words, such as gnomonist, one versed in dialling, and gnomonology, a treatise on dialling. The derivative adjective is gnomonic, gnomonical, and gnomic, but as the last-named word has another remote signification, it is not much used. I may say in passing that in the word dialling I have clung to the spelling always found in the old treatises and trigonometries; the spelling given in modern dictionaries is with a single 1--dialing. On the exact setting of the gnomon all the worth of the sun-dial depends; of course all parts should be exact, but the gnomon must be precisely made and set. Therefore it is not well to make the gnomon of wood, because it may warp and twist. I would suggest to all who are erecting sun-dials, especially horizontal dials in a garden, that more thought and work be spent upon the gnomon than is generally done. Being ordinarily of metal it can be engraved on its flat surface, or, better still, it can be pierced. The use even of a monogram in the design will add to its interest, or a date or crest. I like a large gnomon with as much fine pierced work as can be put upon it. When pierced brass work of such exquisite design was used in old watches, it is strange the brass worker did not turn to the sister timekeeper, the sun-dial, as a field for delicate ornamentation. I have a collection of two hundred old brass verges or bridges from ancient verge-watches in which the designs show every variety of exquisite tracing and outline. I know no gold wrought work to compare with them in delicate beauty, and wer...
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