Selected quad for the lemma: day_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	clock_n	moon_n	quarter_n	4,159	5	10.8166	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55564	Humane industry, or, A history of most manual arts deducing the original, progress, and improvement of them : furnished with variety of instances and examples, shewing forth the excellency of humane wit.	Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3072; ESTC R8532	67,823	206

made of Glass made of Alablaster Otters taught to drive fish into the net P. Parrot taught to sing the Gam-ut Painting or Limning a useful and delightful Art Plumary art what it is Pictures made of feathers Pictures highly valued Panthers tamed for hunting Picture called Deaths-dance Printing where invented Printing-Presses Paper made of seggs or rushes made of lint and rags R. Rare shews on the Roman Amphith●aters Roger Bacon a great Mathematician Reversus a fish used to catch fish withal S. Sea-dial See Mariners Compass Spiders in the Summer Islands making silk Spider of Iron moving like the natural Sybarits horses taught to dance Sailing Coaches Sailing by stars before the invention of the Compass Sailing in Taprobana by the direction of birds Ships with Gardens and Orchards on the tops Ship first invented by Jason among the Grecians Silk-worm first brought into Europe Sea-silk Silk whether any vegetable or growing upon trees Spiders tissue admirable Spit to turn by a Sail by the motion of Air. Spheares representing the heavenly bodies and motions Specular stone what it was Statues vocal Salamanders wooll what it is T. Thermo-meters or Weather glasses Travelling by the direction of Stars Tortoise shell used for a house and a boat Tortoise shell first pattern of a Lute Triton artificial sounding a Trumpet Tredeskins Ark. Tyrians the best Navigators V. Velvets and Sattins made of the bark of the Palm tree Vulcans chains very subtile Venus rising out of the Sea was Apelles his master-piece W. Waggon and Oxen of glass that a Fly could cover with her wings Weaving by whom invented Water-works of sundry sorts Watches made in the collet of a Ring hanging at Ladies eares Weather-glasses of what use Wind-motions sundry instances Writing an excellent invention Writing in lead and brass in rocks and stones in leaves and barks of trees in cedar and box in waxen tables Writing in short hand by whom invented Writing with the feet Wooll whether growing upon trees Wooll rain'd from the sky made into cloth Wooden Palace of Henry VIII Z. Ziglography what and of what use Zeuxes his picture of an old woman deceived by a painted curtain CAP. I. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR The Invention of Dyals Clocks Watches and other Time-tellers TIme is the most precious commodity that man doth enjoy because time past cannot be revoked and time lost cannot be repaired Damna fleo rerum sed plus fleo damna dierum Rex poterit rebus succurrere nemo diebus Lost Treasure I bewail but lost Days more Kings can give treasure none can days restore Therefore men should set a due estimate upon this commodity and expend it thriftily and wisely to which purpose the ancient Sages of the world have ingeniously devised a way to divide even the Natural day which is one of the least measures of time into hours and those into quarters and minutes and into lesser Fractions then they that by this Horometry they might mete out and proportion business to the time and time to the business in hand The name of Horae Hours came from Horus Apollo an Aegyptian Sage who first divided the day into those portions we call hours as Macrobius Saturnal l. 1. cap. 21. informs us In Aegypt there was a Beast of a very strange kinde called Cynocephalus kept in the Temple of Serapis which in the time of the two Aequinoxes did make water twelve times in a day and so often in the night and that regularly at even spaces of time from the observation whereof they divided the natural day into twenty four hours and that Beast was their Clock and Dyal both to divide the day and reckon the hours by This gave a hint belike to the Clepsydrae or water-glasses invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria which distingu●shed the hours by the fall or dropping of water as Clepsammidia or Sand-glasses did by the running of sand Miro modo in terris aqua peragit quod Solis flammeus vigor desuper moderatus excutrit Cassiod de Divin Lection c. 30. And to shew they owed the invention to this creature they used to set one carved on the top of these Water glasses as may be seen in Kirker in Mechanica Aegyptiaca The Heavens are the grand universal clock of the world from whose incessant and regular motion all times here below are distinguished and measured And because time is in continual flux or motion and passes away with silent feet insensibly and invisibly therefore it was necessary to invent a way how to make the motion of time according to the several divisions thereof visible to the eye or audible to the ear that it should not steal away without our notice but that we might tell and count its steps and stealth Anaximenes the Philosopher was the first that took an account of time by shaddows projected on the ground and which changed and moved according to the motion of the Sun from which observation he devised Sun-dyals called Scioterica Though Vitruvius ascribes the Invention to Berosus the Chaldean who framed Vasa Horoscopa and Epicyclia ex cavavata cum stylo as he terms them certain hollow Dyals like dishes with Stiles or Gnomons erected in the middle At Rome they counted the day for a long time by the shaddow of a brazen Obelisk or Pillar when the shaddow of the pillar did fall in such a place they did account it Noon or Mid-day and then a Cryer was appointed to cry it about the Town So likewise at Evening when the shaddow fell in such a place the Cryer proclaimed horam supremam the last hour of day other distinctions they had none as yet The Nasican Scipio was the first that brought the use of Water-glasses amongst them and distinguished the hours of day and night until his time Populo Romano indiscreta lux fuit saith Pliny the Roman people had no division of hours as the Turks at this day have no distinction of their ways by miles nor of their days by hours as Busbequias relates Ep. 1. Legat. Turc In Plautus his time there was great store of Sun-dyals in Rome which he calls Solaria for in one of his Comedies he brings in an hungry servant complaining of the number of them and cursing the Invention in these expressions Ut illum Dii perdant qui primus horas repperit Quique primus adeo statuit hic Solarium Qui mihi comminuit misero articulatim diem Nam me puero venter hic er at Solarium Multum omnium istorum optimum ac veriss imum Ibi iste monebat esse nisi cum nihil erat Nunc etians quod est non estur nisi Soli lubet Itaque jam oppletum est oppidum solariis Major pars populi aridi reptant fame Among the Persians every ones belly was his Dyal so it was in Ammianus Marcellinus his time But these ways of Horometry were rude and imperfect By Water-glasses the account was not regular for from the attenuation and condensation of the water the hours were

shorter or longer according to the heat or coldness of the weather Then for the Sun-dyals they did serve but at some times only by day time and then not alwaies neither but when the Sun shined To remedy these defects some wits did cast about how to distinguish the hours of the night as well as of the day and of cloudy days as well as of serene and clear Hereupon some Engines and contrivances have been composed by Trochilique art or the artifice of Wheels which by the motion of several Wheels and Springs and Weights and counterpoizes should give an account of the time without Sun or Stars and these were called Horologes Severinus Boetius a worthy Patrician of Rome and a most eminent P●ilosopher and Mathematician was the first that I finde that contrived any Engine of this sort Theodoricus King of the Goths wrote a Letter to the said Boetius to beg one from him for to bestow on his brother in law Gundibald King of Burgundy in which Letter he calls it Machinam mundo gravidam Caelum gestabile rerum compendium A portable heaven and a compendium of the heavenly Sphears as Cassiodor hath it who was the penman in the first book of his variae lectiones Aaron King of Persia sent such an Instrument for a present to Char●s the great King of France in the year 804. it was made of Copper Arte Mechanica mirifice compositum saith Hermannus Contractus who doth describe the same more largely in his history Of these Horologes some are mute and some vocal Vocal I call those which by the sound of a Bell striking at just intervals and periods of time do proclaim the hour of the day or night yea even half hours and minutes by the benefit whereof even blinde men that can see neither Sun nor shaddow and those that lie in their beds may know how the time goes and how long they have bin there although they slept all the while and are properly called Clocks from the French word Cloche a Bell. It rota nexa rot is tinnulaque aere sonant Mute Horologes are such as perform a silent motion and do not speak the time of the day but point at it with an Index such as are Sun-dyals and Watches the last of which go by springs and wheels as the others by weights and wheels yet some of these are vocal too and carry Bells and Alarums to signifie unto us the stealth of time Many carry Watches about them that do little heed the fabrick and contrivance or the wit and skill of the workmanship as there be many that dwell in this habitable world that do little consider or regard the wheel-work of this great Machin and the fabrick of the house they dwell in A King of China upon his first seeing of a Watch thought it a living creature because it moved so regularly of it self and thought it dead when it was run out and its pulses did not beat The wit of man hath been luxuriant and wanton in the Inventions of late years some have made Watches so small and light that Ladies hang them at their ears like pendants and jewels the smalness and variety of the tools that are used about these small Engines seem to me no less admirable then the Engines themselves and there is more Art and Dexterity in placing so many Wheels and Axles in so small a compass for some French Watches do not exceed the compass of a farthing then in making Clocks and greater Machines The Emperour Charls the fifth had a Watch made in the Collet or Jewel of a Ring and King James had the like and one Georgius Caput Blancus or George Whitehead was expert at making such knacks at Vicenza in Italy as Schottus tells us in his Itinerary of that Country Andrew Alciat the great Civilian of France had a kinde of a Clock in his chamber that should awake him at any hour of the night that he determined and when it struck the determined hour it struck fire likewise out of a slint which fell among tinder to light him a candle it was the invention of one Caravagio of Sienna in Italy In some Towns of Germany and Italy there are very rare and elaborate Clocks to be seen in their Town-Halls wherein a man may read Astronomy and never look up to the skies Sydereos vultus Cantataque vatibus Astra Non opus est Coelo quaerere quaere domi So Grotius of these Globes In the Town-Hall of Prague there is a Clock that shews the annual and periodical motions of the Sun and Moon the names and numbers of the moneths days and Festivals of the whole year the times of the Sun-rising and setting throughout the year the Aequinoxes the length of the days and nights the rising and setting of the 12 Signes of the Zodiack The age of the Moon with its several Aspects and Configurations as George Bruy describes it in Theatro Urbium But the Town of Sraesburgh carries the bell of all other steeples of Germany in this point A Scheme of the Strasburg clock you may finde in Coriats Travels with a full description thereof it was made by one Conradus Dasypodius a German and Professor of the Mathematiques in that City One Linnus a Jesuite of Liege and an Englishman by birth as Kircher tells me had a Phial or Glass of water wherein a little Globe did float with the four and twenty Letters of the Alphabet described upon it and on the inside of the Globe was an Index or Stile to which the Globe did turn and move it self at the period of every hour with that letter which denoted the hour of the day successively as though this little Globe kept pace and time with the heavenly motions Gassend de vita Peyresci Kircher above mentioned had a Vessel of water in which just even with the he ●ghe and surface of the water the twenty four hours were described upon the water he set a piece of a Cork and therein some seeds of a certain Heliotrope flower which like the flower it self would turn the cork about according to the course of the Sun and with its motion point the hour of the day ibid. I● that famous Stable of the Duke of Saxony at Dresden there is a Room furnished with all manner of Saddles among the rest there is one that in the Pommel hath a guilded head with eyes continually moving and in the hinder part there of hath a Clock as M. Morison an eye witness relates in his Travels Of a portable Clock or Watch take this ensuing Epigram of our Countryman Thomas Campian de Horologio Portabili Tempor is interpres parvum congestus in orbem Qui memores repet is nocte dieque sonos Ut semel instructus jucundè sex quater hor as Mobilibus retulis irrequietus agis Nec mecum quocunque feror comesire gravar is Annumerans vitae damna levansque meae Times-Teller wrought into a little round Which