horologe

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This great Swedish botanist invented a Floral horologe, "whose wheels were the sun and earth and whose index-figures were flowers."

From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by Richardson, David Lester

Linn�us, classification of, 282; horologe of, 381-382; discovery of daughter of, 431 et seq.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

"My twelve-hours is unusual sharp to-day," said Petullo, consulting a dumpy horologe out of his fob.

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil

By the light of the stained-glass windows the famous astronomical clock in the south transept can be descried, still containing some fragments of the horologe constructed by the mathematician Conrad Dasypodius in 1574.

From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Spence, Lewis

One feels that the hands of the great horologe of time have hunted around the dial, till they have found the hour of doom for this primeval race.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various