Water clock (redirect from Clepsydra (clock))
A water clock or clepsydra (from Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra) 'pipette, water clock'; from κλέπτω (kléptō) 'to steal' and ὕδωρ (hydor) 'water';...
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Zhang Heng (section Extra tank for inflow clepsydra)
Chinese science until European influence in the 17th century. The outflow clepsydra was a timekeeping device used in China as long ago as the Shang dynasty...
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Chinese astronomy (section Clepsydra)
the astronomical abnormalities. The Chief Clepsydra Officer looks after the CLepsydra, along with the Clepsydra professor, who then tell the Sunrise Announcer...
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or a set of tablets. She is also shown with the heroic trumpet and the clepsydra (water clock). Cesare Ripa's Iconologia, an important source book for...
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highly-skilled players of the instrument. He improved the water clock or clepsydra ('water thief'), which for more than 1,800 years was the most accurate...
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Spasm Geyser is part of the Fountain Group. It is located near the walkway past Fountain Geyser, in front of Clepsydra Geyser, and to the right of Jelly...
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Sacrificial victims of the Minotaur (category Groups of ancient Greeks)
Empedo was also the name of a spring on the Acropolis, later known as Clepsydra; see scholia on Aristophanes, Wasps, 857; on Lysistrata 913; Hesychius...
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Spa 700 (2018) Nothing to Declare (2022) Manufacture of Indigo (2015) Clepsydra (2020) Anthologia 01 (2020) (with Olof Melander) Offering: Live at Le...
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inside, discovering a Conjoiner starship trapped inside. One of them, Clepsydra, has escaped and is hiding. She meets with Dreyfus and tells him that...
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Tang, which mentioned its massive walls and gates as well as a purported clepsydra mounted with a golden statue of a man. The Chinese histories even related...
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texts. 𓃼 E37 U+130FC baboon with receptacle and basket water-clock (Clepsydra) (šbt) 𓃽 E38 U+130FD long-horned bull Bull (kꜣ) F Parts of mammals...
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IAU-approved Star Names. In Chinese astronomy, Tsan Tae (漸台 (Jiāntāi), meaning Clepsydra Terrace, refers to an asterism consisting of this star, Delta² Lyrae,...
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Hellenistic engineer and inventor Ctesibius (fl. 285–222 BCE) fitted his clepsydras with dial and pointer for indicating the time, and added elaborate "alarm...
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suffixes and prefixes. Contents H I J K L M N O References Note that root groups such as "ad-, a-, ac-, af-, ag-, al-, am-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-" are...
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waves of water cascade down its sinter terraces., the Fountain group of Geysers (Clepsydra Geyser which erupts nearly continuously to heights of 45 feet...
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Franzini "Fluid Mechanics with Engineering Applications", McGraw-Hill, 2002 "Clepsydra". Encyclopedia Britannica. "Qanats" Water History. From 2001, ongoing...
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is shortest. Time was measured by solar clocks during the day and by clepsydra at night. On the measurement of time in ancient Egypt and the calendar...
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kerguelensis) Pennate diatom with a raphe (Lyrella hennedy) Centrales Clepsydra Hoek, C. van den; Mann, D.G.; Jahns, H.M. (1995). Algae : An introduction...
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(15 September 2008). "Astronomical Calendar and Restoration Design of Clepsydra in the Silla era 신라시대 천문역법(天文曆法)과 물시계(漏刻) 복원연구" (PDF). Journal of Astronomy...
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Notre-Dame were clepsydras. These were used to tell the hours, which were marked by striking bells. In the 14th century Notre-Dame had two clepsydras running...
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tough time for princes) is the name of the debut album of the Greek musical group Onirama. The album was released on December 7, 2005 by Lyra Records. "Intro"...
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also known for hydraulic clockworks, as he invented a new overflow-tank clepsydra which had more efficient higher-order interpolation instead of linear...
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first clockwork escapement mechanism in 725. This was used alongside a clepsydra clock and waterwheel to power a rotating armillary sphere in representation...
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- Empedocles proves that air is a material substance by submerging a clepsydra into the ocean. 240 BC - Archimedes devised a principle which he later...
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(Figure 3). A pot with a small hole to drain the water is very similar to clepsydras described by Ohashi to measure the time (similar to the utensil used over...
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Fuse* (category Italian artist groups and collectives)
Everything in Existence, 2019 Multiverse, 2018 Dökk, 2017 Amygdala, 2016 Clepsydra, 2016 Ljós, 2014 N 4.0, 2011 Snow Fall, 2009 "Codex Anima Mundi – Interview...
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remains of domestic structures as well as an unusually well-preserved clepsydra. At the Amphiareion, in addition to the presumed annual festival, Greater...
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the form of an exchange of single speeches timed by a water clock or clepsydra, first prosecutor then defendant. In a public suit the litigants each...
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Press. p. 38. Silvio A. Bedini (1962), "The Compartmented Cylindrical Clepsydra", Technology and Culture, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 115–141 (116–118) "Metabolism:...
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Laguna. She is also a member of the editorial boards of the journals Clepsydra. Revista de estudios del género y teoría feminista and of Laguna, revista...
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