clepsydras

They merely give an ingenious demonstration that air is something — by straining wine-skins and showing the resistance of the air, and by cutting it off in clepsydras.

Physics Aristotle 2002

Typical among them are marked, or calibrated, candles, sun dials, sand glasses, clepsydras and oil clocks.

Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

Typical among them are marked, or calibrated, candles, sun dials, sand glasses, clepsydras and oil clocks.

Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

The Arabian astronomers also devoted themselves to the construction and perfection of astronomical instruments, to the measurement of time by clocks of various kinds, by clepsydras and sun-dials.

History of the Conflict between Religion and Science 1881

The flight of time in New England houses was marked without doors by sun-dials; within, by noon-marks, hour-glasses, and rarely by clepsydras, or water-clocks.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

Of all clocks, clepsydras, Geneva-watches, hour-glasses, sun-dials and Linnæan flower-clocks, commend me "would say John Cranston" to thy clock, O Festus, which was a heart and measured time by throbs.

Tiger-Lilies. A Novel. 1867

Toledo he constructed two clepsydras, the waters of which decreased and increased according to the waning and growing of the moon, and these two basins were destroyed only in A.D. 1133 by Alphonse VI., when he took Toledo.

Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature F. F. Arbuthnot 1867

Before there were hour-glasses and clepsydras, most phenomena could be estimated as to their durations and intervals, with no greater precision than degrees of hardness can be estimated by the fingers.

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861

The Arabian astronomers also devoted themselves to the construction and perfection of astronomical instruments, to the measurement of time by clocks of various kinds, by clepsydras and sun-dials.

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science John William Draper 1846

(heathendom had been cleaner, but we must not repine); for the suffering, too, and for pilgrims, exceptional food was provided -- young pigeons, delicate fish, fruit, honey; a new kind of lamp was invented, to burn for long hours without attention; dials and clepsydras marked the progress of day and night.

By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880