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LIBER II · CAPUT 76

OF THE FIRST DIAL

OF THE FIRST DIAL. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
OF THE FIRST DIAL · EDITORIAL PLATE II.76 · modern editorial plate
OF THE FIRST DIAL. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Vmbrarum hanc rationem et quam vocant gnomonicen invenit Anaximenes Milesius, Anaximandri, de quo diximus, discipulus, primusque horologium, quod appellant sciothericon, Lacedaemone ostendit.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

Anaximenes the Milesian, the disciple of Anaximander, of whom I have spoken above, discovered the theory of shadows and what is called the art of dialling, and he was the first who exhibited at Lacedæmon the dial which they call sciothericon.