We should remark, that it is not the fire of imagination, but persevering meditation and combination of ideas which have invented arts, as mechanics, gunpowder, printing, Dialling, etc.
"A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 7 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version""
François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh
However, it continued in use so long that to the end of the seventeenth century the art of Dialling was considered a necessary element of every course in mathematics.
"Great Inventions and Discoveries"
Willis Duff Piercy
Some part of this Arte, was called in olde time, Gnomonice: and of late, Horologiographia: and in Englishe, may be termed, Dialling.
"The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara"
John Dee