The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus (1634)
Pliny, the Elder, Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, tr · London, A. Islip · leaf 252
the devife firft to divide the houres both of day and nigh t equalsly by water,diftilling and dropping out of one veffell into another. And this manner of Horo-loge or water-clocke, hee dedicated in the end within houfe, and that was in the 5$»5yeerefrointhe building ofRome. Thus you fee how long… … THE The eighth Bdoke of
Pre-Linnean works · Natural history
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