"Clepsydra" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... horologe, horometer: clepsydra, isochronon; scarab, scarabee, beetle. Associated Words: horology, horography, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... to sunset, sunrise to sunrise, and noon to noon, would give intervals of slightly different lengths. This would, however, be imperceptible so long as their lengths were not measured by some accurate mechanical time-measurer such as a clepsydra, sandglass, pendulum, or ...
— The Astronomy of the Bible - An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References - of Holy Scripture • E. Walter Maunder
... a look of kindness which did not soften to a smile, Benedict dismissed his penitent. When the door had closed, he sat for a few minutes with head bent, then roused himself, glanced at the clepsydra which stood in a corner of the room, and turned a page or two of the volume lying before him. Presently his attention was caught by the sound of fluttering wings; on the window sill had again alighted the two doves, and again they seemed to regard him curiously. ...
— Veranilda • George Gissing
... BEFORE the clepsydra had bound the days Man tethered Change to his fixed star, and said: "The elder races, that long since are dead, Marched by that light; it swerves not from its base Though all the worlds about ...
— Artemis to Actaeon and Other Worlds • Edith Wharton
... in the after age,— When Time's clepsydra will be nearer dry— That all the accustomed things we now pass by Unmarked, because familiar, shall engage The antique reverence of men to be; And that quaint interest which prompts the sage The silent ...
— Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure • W.D. Lighthall
... clepsydra, or water clock, described and illustrated in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT of December 20, 1884, it strikes me that the ingenious principle embodied in that interesting device could be put into a shape more modern and practical, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 • Various |
