. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . you; then you notequickly that the gnomon is a brass or iron barstanding at right angles to the dial-face, upon whichare marked correctly lines and numerals for a ver-tical dial for that latitude. Though this dial withits absurd stick of a gnomon had been erected forsome years, I persisted in inquiring until I learnedthat the dial had been made in London, and on itsway hither the gnomon was lost; so the house archi-tect made a new one, and the man added: Itdoesnt m
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . you; then you notequickly that the gnomon is a brass or iron barstanding at right angles to the dial-face, upon whichare marked correctly lines and numerals for a ver-tical dial for that latitude. Though this dial withits absurd stick of a gnomon had been erected forsome years, I persisted in inquiring until I learnedthat the dial had been made in London, and on itsway hither the gnomon was lost; so the house archi-tect made a new one, and the man added: Itdoesnt matter, anyway ; it doesnt keep any time,its only an ornament. I am told that a sun-dialis never right within sixteen minutes. CHAPTER V INGENIOSE DIALLERS *In this glorious reign, as likewise in the century which haspassed, there are to the honor and pleasure of the King and theglory of God in all his works, as seen in the sunne and his mo-tions, many ingeniose diallers. — Mathematick Rules by I. N. Gentn, 1646. * Methinks it were a happy lifeTo carve out dials quaintly, point by point. —J Henry VI^ William giveswork Thcame S CLOCKS and watches be-came more general theywere doubtless often imper-fect and harassing in theirworkmanship. Dutch andGerman horologers hadbeen warmly welcomed toEngland, and throughoutEurope, but Shakespearea striking example of the carelessness of their in his taunt: — ** I seek a wife !A woman, that is like a German a-repairing, ever out of never going aright ! e most celebrated dial and clock maker whoto England was Nicholas Kratzer. In a letter 103 104 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday written in English to Cardinal Wolsey from Luccain 1520, he is called an Allemagne, a deviserof the Kings horologies, and it was stated that hewas ready to go to England. He was born inMunich, educated in the university of Cologne andother German universities, and became a Fellow ofCorpus Christi College, Oxford, in July, 1517.
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