...The time-piece of the Bastile, adorned with figures, like most of the clocks of the period, represented St... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...Thither the bad priestcomes by night with his light o’ love, and at the firststroke of eleven he begins to mumble the mass backwards, and endsjust as the clocks are knelling the midnight hour...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The witches tried to blow out the candle, and if theysucceeded, so much the worse for you; but if the flame burnedsteadily till the clocks had struck midnight, you were safe...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...Methods of making water clocks have been investigated by the samewriters, and first of all by Ctesibius the Alexandrian, who alsodiscovered the natural pressure of the air and pneumatic principles...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
...This subdivision of the dayrequires some mechanical means of continually registering time, and forthis purpose we use clocks and watches...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...The registerof work done, shown by all our clocks and watches, would be double forthe afternoon what it had been for the morning...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...Up to this time the method adopted in the construction of clocks was notcapable of producing a mechanism which measured time with sufficientaccuracy to satisfy the requirements of astronomers...
Thomas Orchard 「The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'」
...In the hands of such a skilful man as Tycho Brahe, the old open sights, evenwithout clocks, served their purpose sufficiently well to enable Kepler todiscover the true theory of the solar system...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
...With the general introduction of clocks and watchesinto use about a century ago this kind of solar time wentout of common use, since no well-regulated clock couldkeep the time correctly...
George C. Comstock 「A Text-Book of Astronomy」
...Ourfore-fathers had to regulate their clocks by a sundial, or perhaps by amark at the corner of the house, which showed where the shadow of thehouse fell at noon...
Simon Newcomb 「Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science」
...Through his researches the inventions of clocks, lenses, andthe formula for extracting phosphorus, manganese, and bismuth werebrought to light...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
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