Lexicographical Neighbors of Horologes
Literary usage of Horologes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"About nine hundred years ago horologes were brought into England by the ...
Very large horologes were built into the towers at Canterbury Cathedral, ..."
2. Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way by Eliezer Edwards (1882)
"horologes were first contrived to move by the dropping of water, and these were
known to the Romans a century and a half before the Christian era, ..."
3. A History of Taxation and Taxes in England from the Earliest Times to the by Stephen Dowell (1888)
"These horologes, as originally made, were worked by means of weights. The introduction,
subsequently, of coiled springs in lieu of weights enabled the ..."
4. Classical Antiquities: Being Part of the "Manual of Classical Literature." by Johann Joachim Eschenburg (1860)
"... Histoire UK la Mesure du Temps ]лт les horologes. Par. 1802. 2 vuls. 4. ...
Sur les horologes des Anciens, lu the Л/fm. de l'Acad. da ..."
5. A General Biographical Dictionaryby John Gorton by John Gorton (1851)
"He published several treatises on the art of measuring time, the titles of which
are—" Histoire de la Mesure du Temps par les horologes," 2 vols. ..."
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