The architecture is Italian Renaissance and gives you the beautiful
spirit of the old-time work. It is a wonderful court in architecture,
ornamentation, color, arrangement, and above all in meaning.

In order to get the full joy of it you must pursue a regular plan and
you cannot hurry. Don't try to do it all in one day. First walk thru the
court to the Triumphal Arch on the right. Pass thru it and read the
quotation on the right at the top of the arch.

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The Cosmical Side of the Court of the Universe



"The universe - an infinite sphere. Its center everywhere, its
circumference, nowhere." This comes from Pascal, from his Pensées.

This splendid quotation gives you the infinite side of your subject.

Now pass back to the Court of the Universe and you will see ninety times
repeated against the sky, A. Stirling Calder's very decorative "Jeweled
Star." This will suggest the myriad of suns in our great universe (since
stars are suns).

The nearest star to us, our sun ("The Rising Sun," by A. A. Weinmann of
New York) then attracts the attention.

He is seen just before daybreak.