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EXTRAORDINARY CLOCK AT STRASBOURG. 313
work containeth, by my estimation, about fifty foot in
height, betwixt the bottom and the top. It is compassed
in with three several rails, to the end to exclude all per-
sons, that none may approach near it to disfigure any
part of it, whereof the two outmost are made of timber,
the third of iron, about three yards high. On the left
hand of it there is a very ingenious and methodical ob-
servation for the knowing of the eclipses of the sun and
moon, for thirty-two years. At the top whereof is writ-
ten, in fair Roman letters :
Typi Eclipsium
Solis et Luna,
Ad Annas xxxn.
On the same hand ascendeth a very fair architectorical
machine, made of wainscot, with great curiosity, the
sides being adorned with pretty little pillars of marble,
of divers colours, in which are three degrees, whereof
each containeth a fair statue of carved wainscot: the
first, the statue of Urania, one of the nine Muses, about
which her name is written in gold letters ; and, by the
sides, these two words, in the like golden letters, Arith-
metica and Geometria. The second, the picture of a
certain King, with a regal sceptre in his hand. But
what King it is, I know not: above him is written
Daniel, 2 chap. The last is the picture of Nicholaus
Copernicus, that rare Astronomer, under whom is written,
in fair Roman letters : Nicholai Copernici ver a effigies ex
iysius Autographo depict a.
At the very top of this row, or series of work, is erected
a most excellent effigie of a cock, which doth, passing
curiosity, represent the living shupe of that vocal crea-
ture; and it croweth at certain hours, yielding as shrill
and loud a voice as a natural cock. Yea, and such a
kind of sound (which maketh it more admirable) as
Vol. II. R r counterfeited!
work containeth, by my estimation, about fifty foot in
height, betwixt the bottom and the top. It is compassed
in with three several rails, to the end to exclude all per-
sons, that none may approach near it to disfigure any
part of it, whereof the two outmost are made of timber,
the third of iron, about three yards high. On the left
hand of it there is a very ingenious and methodical ob-
servation for the knowing of the eclipses of the sun and
moon, for thirty-two years. At the top whereof is writ-
ten, in fair Roman letters :
Typi Eclipsium
Solis et Luna,
Ad Annas xxxn.
On the same hand ascendeth a very fair architectorical
machine, made of wainscot, with great curiosity, the
sides being adorned with pretty little pillars of marble,
of divers colours, in which are three degrees, whereof
each containeth a fair statue of carved wainscot: the
first, the statue of Urania, one of the nine Muses, about
which her name is written in gold letters ; and, by the
sides, these two words, in the like golden letters, Arith-
metica and Geometria. The second, the picture of a
certain King, with a regal sceptre in his hand. But
what King it is, I know not: above him is written
Daniel, 2 chap. The last is the picture of Nicholaus
Copernicus, that rare Astronomer, under whom is written,
in fair Roman letters : Nicholai Copernici ver a effigies ex
iysius Autographo depict a.
At the very top of this row, or series of work, is erected
a most excellent effigie of a cock, which doth, passing
curiosity, represent the living shupe of that vocal crea-
ture; and it croweth at certain hours, yielding as shrill
and loud a voice as a natural cock. Yea, and such a
kind of sound (which maketh it more admirable) as
Vol. II. R r counterfeited!