[14] The abbreviation in the inscription "pLan" is difficult to interpret. According to Father F. X. Winters, S.J., it may represent "sit planetis" or "sit planetarum." The use of an abbreviation was necessary to prevent the addition of another letter I or M, which would have disturbed the formation of the chronogram desired. Literally, "sit planetis" means "May he be eternal ruler _by_ [or _through_] favor of the planets," while "sit planetarum" is to be translated "May he be eternal ruler _of_ the planets." Father Winters considered both versions somewhat overexaggerated and proposed that the best translation might be "Long Live Francis I, Emperor." [15] The word "Tempe" refers to the Vale of Tempe, in Thessaly, through which the Peneus River flows. It is between Mounts Olympus and Ossa, and is situated between the town of Larissa and the sea. In mythology, it is told that these mounts were originally joined and Hercules separated them to allow the river to pass between them. The word "Tempe" is also used to mean any pleasant place. Thus, the inscription "Tempe indesinenter clausa, Scaturigo signata" is literally translated "Tempe always closed, A fount of water sealed up" or, freely translated, as "A garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up." [16] "Phoebi" or Phoebus, called Apollo, the sun god; Phoebes or Diana, the moon goddess, sister of Apollo. [17] PIPPA, op. cit. (footnote 11), pp. 23-25. [18] PERINI, _Statistica del Trentino, Biblioteca Communale del Trentino_, vol. 2, p. 57 (cons. 6, carta 9); TOVAZZI, _Biblioteca Tirolese_, pp. 406-407. [19] PIPPA, op. cit. (footnote 11), pp. 24-25. [20] PIAMONTE, _La Nauna Descritta al Viaggiattore_. [21] ESPOSTI, "La Sala 'Innocente Binda' al Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica di Milano," pp. 18-21. Appendix SYNOPSIS OF THE COMPLETE MECHANICAL WORKS OF THE FIRST CLOCK [Translated from the section entitled "Synopsis Totius Operis Mechanici" in Francesco Borghesi's first book _Novissima Ac Perpetua Astronomica Ephemeris Authomatica Theorico-Practica..._.] I Of three movable indices, the farthest from the center of the dial is fitted with an index on either side and marked with four segments of a circle. Immediately below are five numbers, divided into the days of setting the measure of the mean-synodic age of the moon, and into signs, degrees of the signs, and of the distance of the moon from the sun. These, in each revolution, revolve once around the solar disk superimposed on the mean synodic-lunar disk, and also around the lunar disk. The upper indices, meanwhile, in the two external greatest orbits, measure the time continuously, in the accustomed manner of the Germans--the middle index measuring by hours and the uppermost by the first minutes [of hours]. II