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Constellation called the Clock
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horologium
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Horologium may refer to: In horology (the science of time-keeping) : Various types of ancient and medieval clocks , such as: Sundial ; notably, the Solarium Augusti , a sun marker built by Augustus Hourglass Water clock Turret clock A combination of the ...
Usage examples of horologium.
It is as if a Horologium does not show the twelve hours, but the twenty-four.
In this Horologium moves the hand or arrow towards the twenty-four, and to the right of the twenty-four it was yesterday, and to the left, today.
Thanks to it the observer could know that Horologium Catholicum mentioned before, with the hour at the Jesuit missions on every meridian.
And after he publishes his Horologium Oscillatorium, in which he elaborates on Galileo’s intuitions about the pendulum, who summons him to Paris?