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The Tower of the Winds, also known by other names, is an octagonal Pentelic marble tower in the Roman Agora in Athens, named after the eight large reliefs of wind gods around its top. Its date is uncertain, but was completed by about 50 BC, at the latest, as it was mentioned by Varro in his De re Rustica of about 37 BC. [1]
Mar 31, 2017 · The Tower of the Winds, also known as the Clock of Andronicus Cyrrhestes, is a timekeeping tower on the eastern side of the Roman agora of Athens. Built in the 2nd century BCE, it once had nine sundials and contained a large water clock.
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Jul 23, 2018 · The interior of the structure contained a complicated internal clepsydra, or water clock, which was driven by water flowing down from a large well under the Acropolis.
The Horologium was surmounted by a weather vane in the form of a bronze Triton and contained a water clock (clepsydra) to record the time when the sun was not shining. The Greeks invented the weather vane; the Romans used them in the belief that the wind’s direction could foretell the future.
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Apr 29, 2024 · The Horologium was surmounted by a weather vane in the form of a bronze Triton and contained a water clock (clepsydra) to record the time when the sun was not shining. The Tower of the Winds was built by the astronomer Andronikos in the 1st century BC and is located at the Roman Agora of Athens.
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Tower of the Winds is the Clepsydra, a term also used for a water clock, as was noted by Stuart and Revett. Aristophanes refers to the fountain (Lysistrata v. 909) as being near the Grotto of Pan, and in Turkish times it was noted the stream still passed within ten feet of the Tower. The name clepsydra (literally "water thief," a term first ap-
The Tower of the Winds consisted of a wind-vane, sundials, a water clock and astronomy depictions. Unfortunately much of these scientific instruments were lost over the centuries but there are ideas of how they may have worked.
