Sentence examples for water clock from inspiring English sources

In art Clio was frequently represented with the heroic trumpet and the clepsydra (water clock).

But on its own small scale, the water clock is a marvel.

He was first to measure the pulse, for which he used a water clock.

If you share my husband's relish for noir, buy local writer Jim Kelly's thriller The Water Clock.

Across the street from it stands the remains of Fes's once-grand medieval water clock, now ruined.

It used to have a sundial, a water clock for telling the hour on cloudy days, and a weather vane.

The two bronzes, which date from 1750, were part of a 12-animal water-clock fountain configured around the Chinese zodiac in the imperial gardens of the Summer Palace outside Beijing.

In two of his later works al-Ghazâlî compares the universe with a water-clock.

The emperor who commissioned the bronzes, for a water-clock fountain configured around the Chinese zodiac, was a fan of Western art.

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.

An inventor, engineer and poet, he is credited for designing a water-clock, manufacturing colorless glass and making magnifying corrective lenses or "reading stones".