Many ancient Chinese men of letters left behind beautiful verses about the clepsydra.
作为计时器,漏刻的使用比日晷史为普遍.
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Galileo used a mercury clepsydra to time his experimental falling Bodies.
直到16世纪时,迦利略还用水银漏壶为其自由落体实验计时.
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Water clock : or clepsydra , Ancient device for measuring time by the gradual flow of water.
水钟,亦称漏壶,利用水的流动计时的古代时钟.
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