tif the Ancients rejpe^ing Glafs, 95 



period, as well as of great ingenuity in the me- 

 chanifm and execution of the inftrument itfelf. 

 It fcems to have been a kind of orrery or plane- 

 tarium, in which the fun, moon, and planets, 

 were not only reprefented in their proper places, 



lunae, verum etiam ftellarum vel inerrantium, vel vagarum 

 difpares curfus orbis ille dum vertitur, exhiberet ? 



La£iant. Lib. II. De Orig. Erroris. 



Hie eft ille nofter, cujus ingenio fphara fabricata, ca:li 

 lapfum, & omnium fyderum curfus, exemplo divinse imita- 

 tionis oftendit. Jul. Finnic. L. VI. Cap. 31. 



Claudiani Epigramma in Spharam Archimedis. 

 Jupiter in parvo cum cerneret sthera vitrOj, 



Rifit, & ad fuperos talia dida dedit : 

 Huccine mortalis progrefla potentia cur^ ? 



Jam meus in fragili frangitur orbe labor. , 



Jura poll, rerumque fidem, legefque Deorunt 



Ecce Syracofius tranftulit arte fenex. . 



Inclufus variis famulatur Spiritus aftris, 



Et vivum, certis molibud urget opus. 

 Percurrit proprium mentitus fignifer annum, 



Et fimulata novo Cynthia menfe rcdit. 

 Jamquc fuum volvens audax induftria mundum, 



Gaudet, & humana fidera mente regit. 

 Quid falfo infontem tonitru Salmonea miror * 



^mula natui22 parva rcperta manus. 



Nam quum Archimedes luna:, Solis, quinque erran- 

 tium motus in Sphara illigavit, eiFecit idem quod ille qui in 

 TirajEO mundum exsdificavit Platonis Dens, ut tarditate & 

 celeritate diflimillimos motus una regeret converfio. 



Cicer. Tulc. Quail. Lib. I. 



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