The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 235
Fig. 151.—Clock of Jena, in Germany. (Fifteenth Century.) three hundred and sixty-five days. On two sides of the dial and below itthe principal festivals of the year and the solemnities of the Church wererepresented by allegorical figures. Other dials, distributed symmetricallyon the façade of the… … Fig. 152.—Astronomical Clock of the Cathedral at Strasburg, constructed in 1573. HOROLOGY. sounded the trumpet. When the concert was finished, the bell tolled ;then immediately a cock, perched on the summit, spread his wings noisily,and made his crowing to be heard. The striking machinery, by means…
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