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Gilbert Foliot (c. 1110 – 18
February 1187) was a
medieval English monk and prelate,
successively Abbot of Gloucester,
Bishop of
Hereford and
Bishop of...
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Foliot may
refer to:
Foliot (timepiece), part of the
verge escapement for
early clocks A
member of a
fictional people in the high
fantasy novel The Worm...
- kept time by
using the
verge escapement to
drive a
foliot, a
primitive type of
balance wheel. The
foliot was a
horizontal bar with
weights near its ends...
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Tamerton Foliot is a
village and
former civil parish situated in the
north of Plymouth, in the
Plymouth district, in the
ceremonial county of Devon, England...
- well-preserved
example of the
earliest type of
mechanical clock,
called verge and
foliot clocks, and is said to be the
oldest working clock in the world, although...
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Foliot claimed that the
present situation was not one of them.
According to
Foliot, Becket's
habit was "to
condemn first,
judge second".
Foliot's example...
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Jordan Foliot (c. 1249-1298) was son of
Richard Foliot (-1290),
Knight of
Jordan Castle, and
Margery de
Stuteville daughter of
William de
Stuteville (-...
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Patrick Foliot (born 1
March 1954) is a
French former ice
hockey goaltender. He
competed in the men's
tournament at the 1988
Winter Olympics. Evans, Hilary;...
- Europe. The
verge and
foliot timekeeping mechanism in
these early mechanical clocks was very inaccurate, as the
primitive foliot balance wheel did not...
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Robert Foliot (died 1186) was a
medieval Bishop of
Hereford in England. He was a
relative of a
number of
English ecclesiastics,
including Gilbert Foliot, one...
