Show WONDERFUL MECHANISM one of the most ingenious and singularly exact pieces of mechanism is the famous aln clock in the cathedral of strasburg every d day at noon a cock on its summit flaps its wings I 1 an and a 7 crows ar and id then the fi figures ares of the twelve apostles one by one pass by the figure of the savior 5 who imposes his hand upon each in blessing as they move not for this exhibition but for the wonderful accuracy with which this clock records many astronomical trono mical phenomena of difficult calculation is it world famous the following account of the late remarkable eclipse of the sun as it appeared in in this clock of strasburg is translated form the courrier des stats unis upon one of the dials of f this clock is a little moon of a diameter about the size of a pea on the of july at the very minute minate at the very second predicted by the astronomer finek finck this little moon was seen to lo approach the dist disc of chesun the sun about the same size situated upon the same dial first it covered but a trifling portion then a larger one then it reached the opposite limb in perfect absolute coincidence with the phases of the real eclipse 11 any thing thin like eke the above would be useful in ip illustrating the principles of astronomy in our lectures and schools though the illustrations can be made without I 1 the expense of a clock I 1 |