Horologium

时钟座

发音

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释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    Synonym of Tower of the Winds, a monument in ancient Athens that included a clepsydra and multiple prominent sundials.

    历史
  2. 2.

    Synonym of Solarium, a monument in ancient Rome whose obelisk was once believed to have acted as a sundial gnomon.

    历史
  3. 3.

    A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a pendulum clock. It lies between the constellations Fornax and Dorado.

    时钟座

    天文
  4. 4.

    Alternative letter-case form of horologium, the book of hours in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.

    宗教

相关短语

horologium florae

词源

See horologium. As a location in Rome, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Augustī (“Sundial of Augustus”). As a constellation, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Oscillitorium (“Pendulum Clock”), coined in 1763 by the French astronomer De Lacaille to honor the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Christian Huygens, who had written a major work by that name.

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