 | Cambridge Philosophical Society - Science - 1883 - 508 pages
...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four and twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day...round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed... | |
 | Great Britain - 1882 - 202 pages
...each of them possessed of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with twenty-four letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day...that it could move round without impediment, so as to point to any of the twenty-four letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries,... | |
 | William Thomas - 1885 - 154 pages
...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial plate, inscribing it with the four-andtwenty letters in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked on the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates, in such a manner... | |
 | Chautauquas - 1890 - 798 pages
...possessed of one of those needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four and twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day...round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 420 pages
...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters in the same manner as the hours of the day...one of the needles on each of these plates in such manner that it could move round without 1 Book ii. Prol. 6. impediment, so as to touch any of the four-andtwenty... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 420 pages
...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters in the same manner as the hours of the day...one of the needles on each of these plates in such manner that it could move round without 1 Book ii. Prol. 6. - « In one of Strada's Prolusions he gives... | |
 | Science - 1899 - 950 pages
...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four and-twenty letters in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial- plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such manner that it could... | |
 | Will Carleton - 1908 - 788 pages
...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters in the same manner as the hours of the day...so as to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters Accordingly, when they were some hundred miles asunder, each of them shut himself up in his closet,... | |
 | Cardinal Leonidas Goodwin - United States - 1922 - 1082 pages
...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day...letters. Upon their separating from one another into different countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1879 - 586 pages
...in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then lixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such...round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four-aud-twenty letters. ... By this means they talked together across a whole continent, and conveyed... | |
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... letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and... 
