The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 233
ve 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 facade of the tower in which the clock is situated, marked the daysof the week, the date of the… … Fig. 152.—Astronomical Clock of the Cathedral at Strasburg, constructed in 1573. HOROLOGY. 185 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…
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