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wev
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iconnumber posted 12-14-2006 07:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for wev     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I really need a hobby -- no, wait -- this is my hobby; I'll have an eggnog instead.

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Okay, I give up . . . What does a tertius maker do? (Honest, I searched first - even Googled!)

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I believe that he made mechanical celestial models, the sort with the planets revolving around the sun. Swarter? You are better with the instruments of science; am I far wrong?

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Tertius is Latin for "the third." It is used as an sdjective or part of a noun (e.g. peroneus tertius, a muscle). I can find no example of independant noun useage for it. I can only guess that since he was a clock and watchmaker, it might be a shorthand or abbreviated notation for a third clockwork movement of some sort. If he were making telluria or some such, as you suggest, it could refer to a third motion: (1) revolution of the planets around the sun, (2) revolution of moons around the planets, and (3) rotation of the planets around their axes. Only a guess. Very few devices of that sort were made here that early - most were imported. Is he listed as an instrument maker anywhere?

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Mystery solved -- it is used in the directory to indicate the third of that name, though it is set with the occupation, rather than the name. I went back through the directory and found examples where all three were listed:
Isaac Rand -- physician
Isaac Rand jr -- drugs
Isaac Rand -- tertius, physician

I will correct my page

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iconnumber posted 12-16-2006 01:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for swarter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
And also could be used for "the third" in a family (III), the son of Jr. (II, the second, or secundus). The inclusion after the occupation rather than the name would differentiate it from this archaeic familial connotation.

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