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f. lHAPTER. 36. HOROMETRY. (n.) The measurement of time. When my aborted
teaching career mercifully came to an end, I rented a loft apartment in the Mission
District, with white walls, wooden floors, high ceilings. And the door's lock was ...
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A New and General Introduction to Practical Astronomy: With ...
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.
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The royal dictionary-cyclopædia, for universal reference, ...
Hobometrical, ho-ro-met -re-kal, a. Belonging to horometry, or to the
measurement of time by hours and subordinate divisions. Horometry, ho-rom'-e-
tre, s. (Gr.J The art or practice of measuring time by hours and subordinate
divisions.
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Asiatick Researches, Or, Transactions of the Society ...
Some Account of the Scssulptures at Mahabalipoorum, usually called the Seven
Pagodas 69 V. Account of the Hindustanee Horometry 81 VI. Onffndian Wcights
and Measures ' ' 91 ' VII. Of the City of Pegue, and the Temple of Shoemadoo ...
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The Gentleman's Magazine Or, Monthly Intelligencer for the ...
certain that it was not applied as a motor till about the commencement of the
sixteenth century; who suggested its use in horometry is not known or even
conjectured. The ancient German city of Nuremberg has always claimed the
invention of ...
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Asiatic researches or transactions of the Society instituted ...
V. Account of the Hindustanee Horometry. By John Gilchrist, Esq. npHE
inhabitants of Hindustan commonly reckon and divide time in the following
manner ; which exhibits a horography so imperfect, however, that its inaccuracy
can only be ...
Asiatic Society of Bengal,
1799
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
The horometry of Hindostan is very imperfect, and seems by no means to have
kept pace with the improvements ot" the Hindus in astronomy. It is apparently the
early division ot a race not highly refined or deeply instructed ; and as it is more ...
Tobias George Smollett,
1800
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
HOROMETRY. n. f. [borometrie, French ; o(m and >urftu.] The art of measuring
hours. — It i; no easy wonder how the horometry of antiquity discovered not this
artifice. Brciun's Vulg. Err. HOROPTER, in optics, a right line drawn through the ...
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Asiatic Researches Or Transactions of the Society Instituted ...
Horometry, Hindustanee, account of, V. 81. Horsa, being the tenth in lineal
descent from Manu or the New Oden, X. 29. Horus, one of the Egyptian Triad, III.
370; same with Mahadéva, 375; with Arveris, 382. ——-, lord of time, the same
with ...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Account of the Hindustani Horometry: by John Gilchrist, Esq- During the
equinoctial months, there are just thirty ghurris in the day, and thirty also in the
night; each ghurri properly occupying a space at all times exactly equal to twenty-
four of our ...
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths,
1800