Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems (1902)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York; London : Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 509
Base of Horologium Achaz. Schissler was a great mathematician in the dayswhen to be that meant much to all men. He calledhimself a geometric and astronomical master me-chanic, and he was an apprenticed brass worker bytrade. That he was a skilful artificer, we need only 396 Sun-dials and Roses of… … Basin of Horologium Achaz. was a Rhenish foot square, and weighed severalpounds. It was easy to use gold by the poundwhen you were wise as to the philosophers stone. Ihe Sun-dial of Ahaz 397 I am sorry to spoil this tale of the luxury of old-time science by telling that the custodian at theBodleian…
Sundials · Roses · Rosicrucians
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