A new light on the renaissance displayed in contemporary emblems (1909)
Bayley, Harold · London, J.M. Dent · leaf 38
revail. The figure 4 was held sacred as the emblem of moral justice and Divine equity, on account of its forming the perfect square, none of the bounding lines of a square exceeding the others by a single point in Fig. 37 — 1585. length. All the powers and symphonies of spiritual and physical… … scales. The scales typified eternal equilibrium which is the necessity of a Universe of Harmony and exact Justice.
Emblems · Cabala · Printers' marks · Renaissance
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