- Look up clepsydra,
clepsydrae, or
clepsydras in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Clepsydra may
refer to: Clepsydra, an
alternative name for a
water clock...
- – AD 30), a
Secretary at the
Court in
charge of
clepsydrae,
wrote that he had to
compare clepsydrae with
sundials because of how
temperature and humidity...
- (horologia),
which included giant public sundials (solaria) and
water clocks (
clepsydrae). The
ancient Roman w****
originally had
eight days,
which were identified...
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dynasty astronomer Zhang Sixun addressed the
problem of the
water in
clepsydrae freezing in cold
weather when he
replaced the
water with
liquid mercury...
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celestial diagram that
would have
existed and used to be
represented in
clepsydrae (water clocks, as that of Karnak).
Because of the lack of space, when...
- Machines.
Science History Publications.) Sloley, R.W. (1924). "Ancient
Clepsydrae".
Ancient Egypt: 43–50. Sloley, R.W. (1931). "Primitive
methods of measuring...
