By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.8.A. 19 
The historians also of Padua, had he really been a native of that 
place and very conspicuous as an architect, would not have omitted 
to claim so famous a son. 
It was by mere accident that I was led to the explanation which 
I venture now to submit, of the mystery which so long surrounded 
_ the name of John of Padua. 
In turning over a number of curious old volumes that had been 
rescued from destruction in the garret of a farm-house I met with 
a thin little quarto, the title of which was “Joannis Papvuanit 
Veronensis opus de compositione et usu multiformium Horologiorum 
Solarium.” [John Paduanius of Verona, on the construction and use 
of Sun-dials of various shapes.| ‘‘ Printed at Venice, 1570,” 
Happening at the moment to remember (what I have already 
mentioned) that at Caius College, Cambridge, there is a picture 
with a curious swz-dial painted on the corner, which picture Dr. 
Ducarel wnderstood to be that of “ John of Padua,” the coincidence 
of the names and circumstances struck me as remarkable. 
This sun-dial at Caius College, it should he mentioned, stood 
formerly (for it has long since disappeared) on a column in the court 
of the college. Being constructed on twelve pentagons, each 
pentagon having of course, five faces, it presented sixty dials. The 
annals of the house record that it was set up by Theodore Have, in 
the year 1576. ‘There is a miserable little sketch of the column on 
which it stood, in Loggan’s print of that College, Now, though 
Theodore Have may have set up this curious sun-dial, still, he may 
have been assisted in its construction, either by Joannes Paduanius 
in person, or by the rules in his book on that subject, printed in 
1570, a few years before; and this, perhaps, may be enough to 
account for the name of John of Padua being mentioned at all at 
the college, At any rate it brings John de Padwa into such striking 
concurrence with Joannes Paduanius that it is difficult to believe 
they were not one and the same person.’ 
1The usage of Latin grammar would suggest Paduanus rather than Paduanius: 
but neither of them is classically correct. Livy, the Roman historian, a native 
of Patavium (Anglicé Padua) was “ T. Livius Patavinus.” 
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