. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 14. The bottom righi corner ol the dial plate, showing two noblemen contemplating an orb, with the last ription "Diligit Avdaces rrepidos Fortvna ; (Fortune Livens the daring and rejects the timid.) out the chronogram 17h4. the year the clock completed. Each lemma is translated and identified from the Douay-Rheims version of the Bible: I his woman: a great sign appeared in Heaven (Apocalypse 12: i) * ["he Ilok Mother of God clothed with the sun (Apocalypse 12: 1) * And with unharmed foot crushing the black
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 14. The bottom righi corner ol the dial plate, showing two noblemen contemplating an orb, with the last ription "Diligit Avdaces rrepidos Fortvna ; (Fortune Livens the daring and rejects the timid.) out the chronogram 17h4. the year the clock completed. Each lemma is translated and identified from the Douay-Rheims version of the Bible: I his woman: a great sign appeared in Heaven (Apocalypse 12: i) * ["he Ilok Mother of God clothed with the sun (Apocalypse 12: 1) * And with unharmed foot crushing the black horns of the moon (Apocalypse 12: 1) and the serpent (Genesis 3: 15) * Most beautifully crowned with twice-sbt (Apocalypse 12: 1) * A garden /v 'â ''] enclosed, scaled with a fountain [spring of 'â¢The word "Tempe" refers to the Vale of Tempi in I through uhn h tin- IVneus Rivi i flows. Ii i- I i tween Mounts < Hympus .mil Ossa. and is situated between the town â â¢I I ii . the mm. In niylhnlony. it is tnlil these mounts ucre originally joined and Hercules separated them allow the river to pass between them. The word "Tempe" is also used to mean .my pleasant place, ["hus, the inscription "Tempe indesinenter clausa s< tturigo signata" i^ literally translated "Tempe always closed, A fount l water sealed up" or. freely translated, a- "A garden enclosed, a fountain sealed ; uai â I edai in 1 ., and a in Mount Zi Mother of pure love andof holy hop I tughter ol ih' 1 1 Motherof the Word, Spouse of the Mil. Spirit (Ecclesiasticus _â ) .â 1 * Surrounded with a diversity At the lower left corner below the figure of Atlas upholding the world is the phrase, Assidvo rorii/> â di evneta labori. (The favorable gods willingly grant .ill things u> the assiduous laborer. 1 ["he saem phrase i^ quoted b) I ather Borghesi in the texl of his second volume. The last inscripti
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