See the
illustrations
in F.
John Donne
But the circles which cut these at right angles,
and along which we measure the distance of any spot from the equator,
from the sun, are all of equal magnitude, passing round the earth
through the poles, i. e. meridians are great circles, their planes
passing through the centre of the earth.
Harington's life would have been a Great Circle had it completed its
course, passing through the poles of youth and age. In that case we
should have had from him lessons for every phase of life, medicines to
cure every moral malady.
In _The Crosse_ Donne writes:
All the Globes frame and spheares, is nothing else
But the Meridians crossing Parallels.
And in the _Anatomie of the World_, p. 239, ll. 278-80:
For of Meridians, and Parallels,
Man hath weav'd out a net, and this net throwne
Upon the Heavens, and now they are his owne.
PAGE =275=, l. 133. _Whose hand, &c. _ The singular is the reading of
all the MSS. , and is pretty certainly right. The minute and second
hands were comparatively rare at the beginning of the seventeenth
century.
See the illustrations in F. J. Britten's _Old Clocks and
Watches and their Makers, &c. _ (1904); and compare: 'But yet, as
he that makes a Clock, bestowes all that labour upon the severall
wheeles, that thereby the Bell might give a sound, and that thereby
the hand might give knowledge to others how the time passes,' &c.
_Sermons_ 80. 55. 550.
PAGE =276=, l. 154. _And great Sun-dyall to have set us All. _ Compare:
The lives of princes should like dyals move,
Whose regular example is so strong,
They make the times by them go right or wrong.
Webster, _White Devil_, I. ii. 313.
PAGE =279=, l. 250.
and along which we measure the distance of any spot from the equator,
from the sun, are all of equal magnitude, passing round the earth
through the poles, i. e. meridians are great circles, their planes
passing through the centre of the earth.
Harington's life would have been a Great Circle had it completed its
course, passing through the poles of youth and age. In that case we
should have had from him lessons for every phase of life, medicines to
cure every moral malady.
In _The Crosse_ Donne writes:
All the Globes frame and spheares, is nothing else
But the Meridians crossing Parallels.
And in the _Anatomie of the World_, p. 239, ll. 278-80:
For of Meridians, and Parallels,
Man hath weav'd out a net, and this net throwne
Upon the Heavens, and now they are his owne.
PAGE =275=, l. 133. _Whose hand, &c. _ The singular is the reading of
all the MSS. , and is pretty certainly right. The minute and second
hands were comparatively rare at the beginning of the seventeenth
century.
See the illustrations in F. J. Britten's _Old Clocks and
Watches and their Makers, &c. _ (1904); and compare: 'But yet, as
he that makes a Clock, bestowes all that labour upon the severall
wheeles, that thereby the Bell might give a sound, and that thereby
the hand might give knowledge to others how the time passes,' &c.
_Sermons_ 80. 55. 550.
PAGE =276=, l. 154. _And great Sun-dyall to have set us All. _ Compare:
The lives of princes should like dyals move,
Whose regular example is so strong,
They make the times by them go right or wrong.
Webster, _White Devil_, I. ii. 313.
PAGE =279=, l. 250.
