Horologium est instrumentum quo tempus definitur, indicatur, ordinatur. In usu generali hodie, horologium est quaelibet res quae spatia temporis metitur et monstrat. Horologia armillaria (vel horologia gestabilia) et alii temporis mensores qui portari possunt ab horologiis saepe distinguuntur.[1]

Horologium portae pastoris in Observatorio Regali Grenovici situm.

Horologium est unum ex primorum inventorum humanorum, ad tractandas necessitates spatiorum temporis constanter metiendorum quae unitatibus naturalibus sunt brevioria, praecipue inter quas dies, menses lunares, annos. Machinae quae nonnullis physicae rationibus utuntur per millennia adhibitae sunt, in horologiis hodiernis finientes.

Studium temporis mensurati horologia appellatur.

Solaria et aliae res recensere

Solarium, quod tempus diei umbram solis in lapidem cylindricum deiectam metitur, latissime antiquitate adhibitum est.

Horologia candelae et virgulae turis quae celeritatibus notis deflagrantur etiam ad aestimandum temporis transitum adhibita sunt.

In clepsydra vitri, arena tenuis per foramen perparvum constanter funditur et sic transitum certi temporis spatii indicat.

Pinacotheca recensere

Genera horologiorum recensere

 
Exemplar scalare Turris Horologicae Astronomicae Su Song, Kaifeng in urbe Sinarum saeculo undecimo aedificata.
Mechanismo: Functione: Modo vel forma:

Nexus interni

Notae recensere

  1. "Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary" 
  2. Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, conversus et adnotatus a Donaldo Routledge Hill (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1974).

Bibliographia recensere

 
Unum ex primis horologiis gestabilibus, "Ovum Norimbergense" appellatum, circa 1510 factum et Petro Henlein tributum (Norimbergae: Germanisches Nationalmuseum).
 
Chronometer H5 Ioannis Harrison.
 
Horologia bracket rococo (Vesuntii: Museum Temporis.
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Nexus externi recensere

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