Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Morpheus” in chapter 4, entry dial of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:
...serted in the stone; a device well deserving to be known, and due to the ingenuity of Facundus Novus, the mathematician.
On an ancient bas-relief at Rome, an hour-glass is placed in the hands of Morpheus , and Athenaeus says that the ancients carried portable hour-glasses with them as measurers of time.
The ancients had three time-measurers, — dials, hour-glasses, clepsydras.
Alfred the Gr...
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† | Morpheus | 28 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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