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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Hydrus, Eridanus, and Reticulum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A clock.
- noun Same as
horology , 2. - noun [capitalized] A southern constellation of twelve stars, inserted by Lacaille east of Eridanus. Its brightest star is of the fourth magnitude.
- noun In botany, a table of the hours at which the flowers of certain plants open and close in a given locality.
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- proper noun astronomy A
constellation of thesouthern sky, said to resemble apendulum clock . It lies between the constellationsFornax andDorado .
Etymologies
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It is not necessary here to explain how the difficulties were overcome; the reader may be referred to the article "Horologium" in the _Dictionary of Antiquities_, and especially to the cuts there given of the dial found at Tusculum in 1761. [
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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] [Footnote 410: See the article "Horologium" in _Dict. of Antiquities_, vol. i.] [Footnote 411: Our modern hours are called equinoctial, because they are fixed at the length of the natural hour at the equinoxes.
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Horologium was actually known as "Horologium Oscillatorium" -pendulum clock, but as far as I know, La Caille just named it to honor Christiaan Huygens. its name was never known as the Latinised "Horologium Huyganius"
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Christiaan Huygens announced in Horologium oscillatorium the invention and theory of the pendulum clock.
1669 2001
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In 1334 Suso translated this work into Latin, but in doing so added considerably to its contents, and made of it an almost entirely new book, to which he gave the name "Horologium Sapientiae".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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In the "Horologium magnum" of the Greeks there is a proper Office of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The Greeks do not mention them in Menæa, Menologium, or Horologium, nor do the Copts or
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Huygens's "Horologium oscillatorium" not only gave the solution of the problem of the centre of oscillation but likewise a statement of the laws which, in circular motion, govern the magnitude of centrifugal force, and thus it was that the eminent physicist prepared the way for Newton, the lawgiver of dynamics.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The axiom that had so happily served Huygens in the study of the impact of bodies he now extended to a body oscillating around a horizontal axis and his "Horologium oscillatorium", which appeared in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Observations on a - Roman Horologium. found in Italy, p. 172; Description of the old Font in Ae Church of East Meon, Hampshire; with some Ob -
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical ... 1812
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