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A SUXDIAL AND A PHILOSOPHER.
air. iiollinKQTake, of Uenmark. (says the
local paper) has in hits' garden an ingenious
instrument whicli the makers call a helio
chronometer, and of which tliere are onlv
[«o oiners in Australia, it is really a sun
dial, by means of which one can telltlie
exact time at any hour of the day, or day
pf the year, clouded hours and days ex
cept ed, without tlie use of tables. It can
be adjusted to any latitude Ko'utli of the
squalor ('.'latitude is angle and longitude is
lime,'' says Sir. Hollingdrake), but for the
northern hemisphere the figures on the dial,
ivhich go eloek-wise here, would co the
Dther way round. The equation of time
difficulty is ingeniously overcome, and both
local and standard time is given. The time
is registered not by a shadow, but by a dot
Jf light crossing a line. The many in
genious, ret simple, arrangements are easily
-?omprehended when one has tile actual in
strument in hand. The motto on the dial
;hosen by Mr. llolliug.dra.ke m delightful—
floras nisi serenas non numero (Unless the
:iourg are bright I do not count them).
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