. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Ingeniose Diallers 107 also shows the greatdialler with a similarblock of dials in hishand. All this cer-tainly proves the as-sertion that it is themost remarkable por-table dial in existence,and cordial thanks aredue to Mr. Evans forgiving knowledge andsight of it to us all. Hegge describesKratzers dial at Cor-pus Christi thus : — In this beautifulAlter (on w^h Art hassacrificed such Varietieof Invention to the De-itle of the Sun) aretwelve Gnomons, theSuns fellow
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Ingeniose Diallers 107 also shows the greatdialler with a similarblock of dials in hishand. All this cer-tainly proves the as-sertion that it is themost remarkable por-table dial in existence,and cordial thanks aredue to Mr. Evans forgiving knowledge andsight of it to us all. Hegge describesKratzers dial at Cor-pus Christi thus : — In this beautifulAlter (on w^h Art hassacrificed such Varietieof Invention to the De-itle of the Sun) aretwelve Gnomons, theSuns fellow travellers,who like farr distant In-habitants, dwell someunder ye Aequinoctiall,some under the Poles,some in more temparatClimats; some uponPlains in Piano; someupon the Mountains in Convexo ; and some in the Valliesin Concavo. Here you may see the Aequinoctiall Dial theMother of ye rest, who hath the horizons of the parallelSphere for her dubble Province, which suffer by course and. Drawing of Kratzers Dial, in Manu-script of Robert Hegge. m io8 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday half-years night : There the polar Dial wingd with theLateral Meridian. Here you may behold the two facdVertical dial which shakes hands with both Poles. Therethe Convex dial elevated in triumph upon 4 iron , lastly, the Concave Dial which shews the Sun atnoone the hemisphere of Night. In other dials neighboringClocks betray their Errours ; but in this Consort of Dials in-formed with one Soul of Art, they move all with one Motion,and unite with their Stiles the prayse of their artificer. There is something most touching and stirring inthis poetical tribute of one dial-maker to another !Who would think that a treatise on the sombrescience of gnomonics could show such an outburstof sentiment and enthusiasm ? It is genuine praise,too, the adoring veneration of one craftsman for theskilled hand of a master. The phrase Consortof Dials informed with one Soul of Art is an un-usual one,
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