Sentence examples for celestial clock from inspiring English sources

From his window in Broad Channel, Queens, Dan Mundy sees the tides of Jamaica Bay swing from high to low, the pendulum of a celestial clock.

It never rose and never set; it just circled the horizon once a day, like a giant celestial clock.

At the height of the Antarctic summer the sun never sets, circling the sky at 23 degrees above the horizon like a celestial clock.

I was aware of the city's moving parts and firm edifices as beautifully coordinated components of a celestial clock.

The unhelpful image of God as a celestial clock keeper, stop watching our every move from above, has shown no sign whatsoever of blinking.

With a period of approximately 215 seconds, and losing a second every 8.9 million years, the 400 million-year-old star has been proposed as the most stable celestial clock.

Millisecond pulsars act as high-precision celestial clocks, and astronomers can use them to test aspects of basic physics and astrophysics.

Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars with phenomenal rotational stability that can be used as celestial clocks in a variety of fundamental physics experiments.

He also thrilled to an Hermès celestial desk clock with a Jaeger-LeCoultre movement.

Others think they mark out an astronomical clock or celestial calendar.

Naturally people tended to set their clocks by their local celestial observations.