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Sundials - Sharon L. Gibbs: Greek and Roman Sundials. Pp. viii + 421; 68 plates (and line drawings). New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. Cloth, £11·55.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2009
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1 On which see, e.g., de Solla Price, D. J., ‘Portable Sundials in Antiquity’, Centaurus (1969), pp. 242–266.Google Scholar
2 Gibbs, p. 7 and n. 15 pp. 94–5. Cf. also Bede, Libellus de Mensura Horologii, PL XC (Paris, 1862), coll. 953–5.
3 Plommer, H., Vitruvius and Later Roman Building Manuals (Cambridge, 1973), Introduction, esp. pp. 2–3.Google Scholar
4 P. Pattenden, ‘Sundials in Cetius Faventinus’ (CQ, May, 1979).
5 Cf. Delambre, M., Historic de I'astronomie ancienne (Paris, 1817), vol. i, p. 310Google Scholar
6 P. Pattenden, ‘A Late Roman Sundial from Aphrodisias’ (shortly to be published).
7 On the fourth-century B.C. one from Erinopolis, see Museo Italiano di Antichità Classica (Florence, 1890), vol. 3, col. 585, Itanus: on the obelisk of Augustus see e.g. Pliny, H.N. 36.72.Google Scholar
8 See Mrs.Gatty, A., The Book of Sundials, 4th edn. (London, 1900), pp. 35, 41–3, and 46–7.Google Scholar
9 e.g. p. 59 last line, read l.b for 2.b–a rather important mistake; p. 304 last line, read 31–32 for 42–43.