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- A water clock or clepsydra (from Ancient Gr**** κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra) 'pipette, water clock'; from κλέπτω (kléptō) 'to steal' and ὕδωρ (hydor) 'water'; lit...
- Planispheres, On the Great Year or Astronomy (a calendar) Contest of the Waterclock, Description of the Heavens, Geography, Description of the Poles, Description...
- Theodoric's bodyguards had debased the coins of their pay, to produce a waterclock for Theodoric to gift to king Gundobad of the Burgundians, and to recruit...
- PMID 13737960. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help) —— (1962). "Mechanical Waterclocks of the 14th Century in Fez, Morocco". Proceedings of the Tenth International...
- installed in the 1990s at Yabachō Station in Nagoya, ****an. In 2011 a Waterclock of Gitton was installed in the entrance hall of NEMO Science Museum in...
- 1086/349045. JSTOR 227240. Sleeswyk, A.W.; Huldén, B. (1991). "The three waterclocks described by Vitruvius". History and Technology. 8 (1): 25–50. doi:10...
- 1/12 of the night. When the nights were shorter in the summer, these waterclocks could be adjusted to measure the shorter hours accurately. Amenhotep...
- Jixuan noted that there were four types of clocks in his day, the basic waterclock, the incense clock, the sundial, and the clock with 'revolving and snapping...
- on older forms and completely new inventions; and advanced gearing in waterclocks and automata. Distillation was known to the Gr****s and Romans, but was...
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