horologium
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Name — Another name for the Tower of the Winds, an ancient Athens monument that contained a clepsydra and several prominent sundials.
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Etymology
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 writt...
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