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Clepsydra may refer to:
Clepsydra, an alternative name for a water clock.
In ancient Greece, a device (now called a water thief) for drawing liquids from vats too large to pour, which utilized the principles of air pressure to transport the liquid from one container to another.
Clepsydra Geyser in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone
Clepsydra (diatom), a genus of protists
Klepsydra well on the Akropolis.
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Look up clepsydra, clepsydrae, or clepsydras in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Clepsydra may refer to: Clepsydra, an alternative name for a water clock...
A water clock or clepsydra (from Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra) 'pipette, water clock'; from κλέπτω (kléptō) 'to steal', and ὕδωρ (hydor) 'water';...
Clepsydra Geyser is a geyser in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Clepsydra plays nearly continuously to heights...
Aeshna clepsydra, the mottled darner, is a species of darner in the dragonfly family Aeshnidae. It is found in North America. The IUCN conservation status...
Muraena clepsydra, commonly known as the hourglass moray, is a moray eel found in coral reefs from the Gulf of California to Peru, and the Galapagos Islands...
Bokermannohyla clepsydra is a species of frogs in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to Serra da Bocaina National Park and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its...
a combination of three water-powered clocks – a 4th-century BC Greek clepsydra, an 11th-century Chinese water wheel clock and a 17th-century Swiss pendulum...
the astronomical abnormalities. The Chief Clepsydra Officer looks after the CLepsydra, along with the Clepsydra professor, who then tell the Sunrise Announcer...
flies"). The origin of the hourglass is unclear. Its predecessor the clepsydra, or water clock, is known to have existed in Babylon and Egypt as early...
humanity's attempt to understand itself. The second part, called the "Clepsydra," or "Hourglass," celebrates the themes introduced in the "Allegory" section...
by Zhang Heng, who operated his armillary sphere by use of an inflow clepsydra clock. Subsequent developments were made after the Han dynasty that improved...
Chinese science until European influence in the 17th century. The outflow clepsydra was a timekeeping device used in China as long ago as the Shang dynasty...
Tang, which mentioned its massive walls and gates as well as a purported clepsydra mounted with a golden statue of a man. The Chinese histories even related...
first clockwork escapement mechanism in 725. This was used alongside a clepsydra clock and waterwheel to power a rotating armillary sphere in representation...
2016. Petersen, Jens Østergård (1992). "The Taiping Jing and the AD 102 Clepsydra Reform". Acta Orientalia. 53: 122–158. Archived from the original on 11...
regnelli Eisenack, 1955 Cyathochitina sebyensis Grahn, 1981 Cyathochitina? clepsydra Grahn, 1984 Cyathochitina at ChitDB: Chitinozoans of Baltica. v t e...
precise timekeeping device of the ancient world was the water clock, or clepsydra, one of which was found in the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I. They...
also known for hydraulic clockworks, as he invented a new overflow-tank clepsydra which had more efficient higher-order interpolation instead of linear...
Tower of the Winds in Athens in the 1st century BC, which housed a large clepsydra inside as well as multiple prominent sundials outside, allowing it to...
Livres d'Architecture (1st century BC), of which he describes Ctesibius's clepsydra in great length. "Musical automaton clock". Victoria and Albert Museum...
inside, discovering a Conjoiner starship trapped inside. One of them, Clepsydra, has escaped and is hiding. She meets with Dreyfus and tells him that...
(1555–1505 BC), Egyptian count and engineer, clepsydra. Ktesibios (3rd century BC), Greek engineer, clepsydra with hands and dial. Andronikos of Kyrrhos...
design of the astronomical gnomon, armillary sphere, sight tube, and clepsydra, and described the use of drydocks to repair boats. After observing the...
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