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Clepsydra: Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism
, 2016This book discusses how relation to time in general, and to the Jewish one in particular, has been envisioned by theologians and philosophers for their own purposes. Arguing that “time,” as a notion and perception, is a social construct made out of beliefs, scientific knowledge, and political experiment, and not a uniform phenomenon, the book shows ...
Sylvie-Anne Goldberg
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1957
Empedogles' simile of the clepsydra (DK6 31B100) is a crucial document for historians of ancient science. It has been much discussed, and often quoted in evidence, in spite of formidable differences of opinion about its significance. ‘Empedocles undertook an experimental investigation of the air we breathe’ (B. Farrington).
D. Furley
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Empedogles' simile of the clepsydra (DK6 31B100) is a crucial document for historians of ancient science. It has been much discussed, and often quoted in evidence, in spite of formidable differences of opinion about its significance. ‘Empedocles undertook an experimental investigation of the air we breathe’ (B. Farrington).
D. Furley
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The Compartmented Cylindrical Clepsydra
Technology and Culture, 1962A clepsydra or "water clock" is described as a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of water or other liquid through a small aperture. Many types of clepsydrae have been devised and have figured in horological history from the early ingenious examples of the Egyptians,' the Chinese,2 and those created in the Hellenistic period by ...
S. Bedini
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The clepsydra experiment, clepsydra’s functioning and the related devices in Heron’s Pneumatics
Almagest, 2011In the introduction to Heron’s Pneumatics a number of theoretical subjects are discussed which form the theoretical background of the functioning of the devices. One of these subjects is the demonstration of the corporeity of air, which is closely related to the clepsydra.
V. Argyrakis
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