118 History of Nature. [BoOK II. 



some affirm the same of Mona, which is an Island distant 

 from Camalodunum, a Town of Britain, about two hundred 

 Miles. 



CHAPTER LXXVI. 



Of the Horologium, or Dial. 



THIS Understanding of Shadows, and what is named 

 Gnonomice, Anaximenes the Milesian, the Disciple of Anaxi- 

 mander above-named, discovered : and he was the first also 

 that shewed in Lacedsemon the Horologe (or Dial 1 ) which 

 they call Sciotericon. 



CHAPTER LXXVII. 

 How the Days are observed. 



THE very Day itself Men have, after divers Manners, 

 observed. The Babylonians count for Day all the Time be- 

 tween two Sun-risings ; the Athenians between the Set- 

 tings ; The Umbrians from Noon to Noon : but all the 

 common Sort from Daylight until it be dark : the Roman 

 Priests, and those that have defined a Civil Day, and likewise 

 the Egyptians and Hipparchus, from Midnight to Midnight 2 . 

 That the Spaces between Lights are greater or less betwixt 

 Sunrisings, near the Solstices, than the Equinoctials ap- 

 peareth by this : that the Position of the Zodiac, about the 

 Middle Parts thereof, is more oblique ; but toward the Sol- 

 stice more direct. 



CHAPTER LXXVIII. 

 The Reason of the Difference of Nations. 



HEREUNTO we must annex such Things as are linked to 

 celestial Causes. For it is beyond doubt that the Ethiopians, 



1 The Greeks were accustomed to regard as discoverers those who first 

 made any thing known to their nation. But the dial was in use at the 

 palace of Ahaz at Jesusalem, nearly 150 years before the time that Pliny 

 mentions. Wern. Club. 



2 The Jews began their day from the first appearance of stars in the 

 evening ; believing this to mark the period when creation began to be set 

 in order, and time to be measured. Wern. Club. 



