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MN This instrument showed the time with more accuracy than the hourglass, the clepsydra or the water-clock.
Sailing on and on 2008
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MN This instrument showed the time with more accuracy than the hourglass, the clepsydra or the water-clock.
Sailing on and on 2008
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Reuters A painting shows how the original water-clock fountain, from which the bronze heads were taken, looked during the 19th century.
Auction Block Drama 2009
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The heads, thought to have been designed by the Jesuit missionary Giuseppe Castiglione, were among 12 zodiac animals from a water-clock fountain in one of the Imperial summer palaces.
The Crying of Lots 677 and 678 - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Reuters The Summer Palace, which housed the water-clock fountain, remains a popular tourist attraction in Beijing.
Auction Block Drama 2009
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In two of his later works al-Ghazâlî compares the universe with a water-clock.
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The heads, thought to have been designed by the Jesuit missionary Giuseppe Castiglione, were among 12 zodiac animals from a water-clock fountain in one of the Imperial summer palaces.
The Crying of Lots 677 and 678 - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The heads, thought to have been designed by the Jesuit missionary Giuseppe Castiglione, were among 12 zodiac animals from a water-clock fountain in one of the Imperial summer palaces.
The Crying of Lots 677 and 678 - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The heads, thought to have been designed by the Jesuit missionary Giuseppe Castiglione, were among 12 zodiac animals from a water-clock fountain in one of the Imperial summer palaces.
The Crying of Lots 677 and 678 - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The builder of the water-clock first has to make a plan of it, secondly execute this plan and build the clock, and thirdly he has to make the clock going by supplying it with a constant source of energy, namely the flow of water.
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