The complete book of trades, or, The parent's guide and youth's instructor : forming a popular encyclopaedia of trades, manufactures, and commerce, as at present pursued in England, with a more particular regard to its state in and near the metropolis : including a copious table of every trade, profession, occupation, and calling, however divided and subdivided : together with the apprentice fee usually given with each, and an estimate of the sums required for commencing business (1842)
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860 · London : Printed for Thomas Tegg · leaf 158
y of dials, clepsydra or water-clocks, sand-dials, &c. The Babylonians are said to be the first people that invented sun-dials. The dial of Ahaz, mentioned by Isaiah, must have existed many centuries before the Christian era. That the Greeks had sun-dials we have a positive proof, as there is an… … In the English translation of Professor Beckmann's History of the Mechanic Arts, he observes that it was not " until late in the fifth century of the Roman era that the first sun-dial was introduced into Rome; and although that was calculated for another meridian, and
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