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Reading Fall 2005

Reading Fall 2005. Week Two. Homework. Listening and reading: THE PENDULUM CLOCK: http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1307.htm FIRST CLOCKS: http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi72.htm Preview: p.7-12. Homework/ 工管. 1. Write down complete title of your department

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Reading Fall 2005

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  1. Reading Fall 2005 Week Two

  2. Homework • Listening and reading: THE PENDULUM CLOCK: http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1307.htm • FIRST CLOCKS: • http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi72.htm • Preview: p.7-12

  3. Homework/工管 • 1. Write down complete title of your department • 2. Watch a movie: write the title and some sentences from the movie.

  4. Homework/機械 • 1. complete title of your department • 2. Watch a movie • 3. memorize the following words: • Invention, machines, major. Mechanism. Precise, ancient, Greek, Plato, apology, uniform • 4. memorize all words in “Color Me Pink”

  5. Today’s . . . • 1. quiz: listening practice/ dictation • 2. Introduction: time-pieces. • 3. activity: word forms • 4. activity: reading and discussion

  6. http://www.uh.edu/engines/epiindex.htm

  7. Episode 1307 and 72

  8. It's About Time • http://www.moah.org/exhibits/archives/time/

  9. Water Clockby 蘇頌

  10. details

  11. Early water clock

  12. Plato’s Apology and Water clock • water-clock used to time the speeches in the law courts

  13. Judicial Procedure • Defendants spoke on their own behalf in the dikasterion, and no trial lasted for longer than a day. The time allotted to each speaker was measured by a water-clock (klepsydra). The klepsydra above (reconstructed as the top vessel below) has a clay spout with a bronze inner tube just above the base.

  14. 13. Hezekiah with the water clock, from the first volume of an illuminated Bible moralisie: Paris, c.1235-45 (Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 270b, fol. 183v, roundels D. 1-2).

  15. Medieval Clocks

  16. sundials

  17. sundials

  18. Candle Clock

  19. Early Cathedral clocks

  20. Reading and thinking What is time? Human invention  the invention of machines • Civilization and culture • Enlightenment

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