admittedly,
is drawn without a scale indicating actual size.
Cheers, John
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Subject: Re: Flies on sundials
Hi John, Fer, et all,
I
Fer,
You asked about flies on stained glass dials. I don't know about flies on
these, but most of the illustrations in Charles Leadbetter's 1756 Mechanick
Dialling have rather nice (and in some cases, quite large) flies on them!
Does anyone know the reason for this? If the book was Australian
Hi John, Fer, et all,
I think Charles Leadbetter was an English author. One reason that some flies
seem large is that they are sometimes representations of dragon flies, rather
than houseflies. An example of this is the stained glass dial that was once in
the chruch a Wendon Lofts, Essex.
