ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CLEPSYDRA
From Latin, from Greek klepsudra, from kleptein to steal + hudōr water.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLEPSYDRA»
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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and ...
Long before the association of the verge- and-foliot escapement with the falling
weight drive in early + 14th-century Europe, several forms of clepsydra technique
had come together to produce a particular kind of mechanical clock in China ...
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Science and Technology in World History, Volume 1: The ...
The simple water clock, the clepsydra, measured time by water running out of a
hole situated near the bottom of a vessel. The oldest known example of this
simple device dates to 1380 B.C.65 But the water clock was almost certainly in
use ...
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The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China:
Summary: Engineers: their status tools & materials.--Basic mechanical principles & types of machines.--Land transport.--Clockwork.--Windmills & aeronautics
Joseph Needham, Colin A. Ronan, 1994
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Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms: ...
[4, 8] In 1433, Jang invented an automatic time-annunciating water-clock called
the “Striking Palace Clepsydra” under an order from King Sejong. On the first day
of the seventh moon in 1434, the new clepsydra was installed at Annunciating ...
Teun Koetsier, Marco Ceccarelli, 2012
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Much Ado about Nothing: Theories of Space and Vacuum from ...
Simplicius provided a substantial description of the clepsydra and also explained
that it is to prevent a vacuum that the water does not fall when the upper orifice is
closed (see Simplicii . . . commentaria in quatuor libros De celo Aristotelis, fol.
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Time Measurement and Calendar Construction
(2) The Clepsydra was an instrument used to measure time by the discharge of
water; a water clock. The name was also applied to intermittent fountains and
ebbing wells. In its simple form the clepsydra was an earthenware globe of
known ...
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The Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean Astronomical ...
large and fine, but in principle quite ordinary, float-rod clepsydra of the sort that
had long been familiar in China and Korea. The feature that so excited the
enthusiasm of Kim Pin and his contemporaries was the use of that device to
operate ...
Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, John H. Combridge, 2004
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Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
A clepsydra is an ancient water clock used by the Greek and Chinese. John
Shoptaw (1994) has pointed out that the clepsydra was used to time lawyers'
arguments in court. If one imagines that lawyers' arguments are defined precisely
by ...
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Philosophy Before Socrates (Second Edition): An Introduction ...
What makes the fragment so interesting is Empedocles' comparison of this
process with the action of a clepsydra, a device made of baked clay which looked
something like an old showerhead, perforated at the bottom with many small
holes.
Richard D. McKirahan, 2011
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLEPSYDRA»
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clepsydra is used in the context of the following news items.
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... by Montjeu), who won the listed Wolferton Handicap, but his Group 1-winning daughter Passage of Time (Clepsydra, by Sadler's Wells) is the ... «Daily Racing Form, Jun 15»
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Clepsydra, the dam of the pair, also produced King Edward VII Stakes winner Father Time among seven individual winners. The daughter of ... «Racing Post Bloodstock, Jun 15»
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671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measure time and indicates hours, ... «KALW, Jun 15»
'Sociopath' Surgeon Duntsch Arrested for Shoplifting Pants
The explanation of a clepsydra or water clock was a popular topic in the Middle Ages. Although a simple wine skin sufficed to demonstrate a ... «The Texas Observer, May 15»
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... of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra. «Bustle, Apr 15»
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s Clepsydra collection echoed the iconic shape of the hourglass, where sand flows like water from top to bottom. Variations on the Clepsydra ... «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Apr 15»
Clock Full of Insects
Early devices developed to provide an indication of the progression of time included sundials, clepsydra and clepsammia. Today we know the clepsydra as ... «Purdue Agricultural Communications, Mar 15»
Jacob & Co. sparkles with new Clepsydra collection
The Clepsydra collection, meanwhile, challenges the relationship between jewellery and time, with the hour-glass shape evident in Clepsydra's ... «Professional Jeweller, Mar 15»
China price coming for fighter planes, submarines, destroyers and …
[19] Shen Kuo is also noted for improving the designs of the inflow clepsydra clock for a more efficient higher-order interpolation, the armillary ... «Next Big Future, Mar 15»
National Watch and Clock Museum in Lancaster County is Daylight …
The oldest example is an ancient clepsydra, a predictably leaky pottery urn once used to measure the passage of time by how much water ... «PennLive.com, Mar 15»
