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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 departme
nt 2. Watch a movie: write the title and some se
ntences from the movie.
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”
Today’s . . .
1. quiz: listening practice/ dictation 2. Introduction: time-pieces. 3. activity: word forms 4. activity: reading and discussion
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epiindex.htm
Episode 1307 and 72
It's About Time
http://www.moah.org/exhibits/archives/time/
Water Clockby 蘇頌
details
Early water clock
Plato’s Apology and Water clock
water-clock used to time the speeches i
n the law courts
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.
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).
Medieval Clocks
sundials
sundials
Candle Clock
Early Cathedral clocks
Reading and thinking
What is time?
Human invention
the invention of machines Civilization and cultureEnlightenment