![]() Included at the end of this edition is an important alchemical poem in Italian by Rigino Danielli Iustinopolitano on the philosopher’s stone ( Canzone de la Arte del Precioso Lapis de Filosofi) highly praised by the Italian alchemists of late 15th and 16th century. Giovanni Battista Nazari's fascinating "Three Dreams on Transmutation of Metals", with its enigmatic and strikingly bizarre woodcuts, is considered one of the key allegorical works of Renaissance alchemy. RARE! WorldCat locates only 7 copies in American libraries! Second Edition and THE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY ALCHEMICAL DREAM-NOVEL! Text in Italian (with some passages in Latin). London: Caslon.Brescia: Francesco & Pietro Maria Marchetti, 1572. Helio-tropes, or new Posies for Sundials. Gatty, Mrs Alfred Eden, HKF Lloyd, E (1900). ![]() : CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) 800 Devises de cadrans solaires (in French). Selections from the 1895 paper by Raphaël Blanchard in the Bulletin de la Société d'Etudes des Hautes-Alpes. The original was published in 1965 as Les Cadrans solaires by Gauthier-Villars (Montrouge, France). Slightly amended reprint of the 1970 translation published by University of Toronto Press, Toronto. Reprint of 1902 book published by Macmillan (New York). ^ Horace, Odes, Book I, ode xxxvii, line 1.^ Probably unique to the William Willett memorial in Petts Wood, England, which shows British Summer Time.^ Horace, Odes, Book III, ode iix, line 27.^ Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) Chapter 2, verse 11.^ Horace, Odes, Book IV, ode vii, line 16.^ Martial, Epigrams, book V, ode xx, line 13.Sundials : history, theory, and practice. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak Rohr, René R.^ From a sundial outside of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in Middlesex Guildhall, Parliament Square, London, England.^ Inscribed on a sundial at Georges River College, Peakhurst and in Hyde Park, Sydney.^ Shown at the end of S2E7 of the TV show Dead Like Me.^ From a sundial at Wallingtons House, Kintbury, Berkshire.^ File:Morehead_Planetarium_Sundial.JPG.^ From Isaac Watts' hymn Our God, Our Help in Ages Past.^ From Oliver Goldsmith's poem The Deserted Village.^ From Henry van Dyke's Inscription for Katrina's Sun-Dial.^ From Robert Browning's poem Rabbi ben Ezra.Mach' es wie die Sonnenuhr Zähl' die heitren Stunden nur! (Do like a sundial count only the sunny hours!).Nunc est bibendum (Now is the time to drink).Horas non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).Horas non numero nisi æstivas (I count only the summer hours).(One hour will give what another has refused.) Living Horace's Dona præsentis cape lætus horæ ac linque severe on the Villa Vizcaya, Miami, Florida Vita in motu on one of the sundials (right) at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England (All hours are the same – they are distinguished only by good deeds.) Omnes æquales sola virtute discrepantes.(I have seen that nothing under the sun endures.) Vita fugit, sicut umbra (Life passes like the shadow.).(Our last hour is hidden from us, so that we watch them all.) (Life flows away as it seems to stay the same.) ( are consumed and will be charged account) (Look at my shadow and you will see your life.) (An hour passes slowly, but the years go by quickly.) ![]() Human mortality Martial's Pereunt et Imputantur on St Buryan's parish church, Cornwall Horace's Umbra Sumus on Brick Lane Mosque, London (Devote this hour to work, another to leisure.)
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