How To Use clepsydra In A Sentence
- Christie's carried a detailed introduction of the two bronzes on its website, saying that the two formed part of the zodiacal clepsydra that decorated the Calm Sea Pavilion in the Old Summer Palace of Emperor Qianlong 1736-1795. China Tries to Stop Auction
- MN This instrument showed the time with more accuracy than the hourglass, the clepsydra or the water-clock. Sailing on and on
- 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 spring clock. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
- But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the clepsydra limiting his time, and the brief limiting his topics, and his adversary is standing over him and exacting his rights. Theaetetus
- He did this with a clepsydra, a vessel with a hole in the bottom and one in the top.
- He designed a lotus clepsydra, that is a water clock which had a bowl shaped like a lotus flower on the top into which water dripped.
- The device they used to ensure fairness was the clepsydra - ‘captured water’ - and was a simple jar with a hole.
- -- The clepsydra was a kind of water-clock; the other vessel is compared to it, because of the liquid in it. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
- The clepsydra comprised the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac each of which, in their turn, spouted water to mark the various hours of the day with the exception of midday, when this elaborate hydraulic mechanism triggered all of the animals simultaneously," Courteault said. China Tries to Stop Auction
- [FN#261] The present of the famous horologium-clepsydra-cuckoo clock, the dog Becerillo and the elephant Abu Lubabah sent by Arabian nights. English
