#astronomical clock

[ancientorigins]

The Prague astronomical clock, or Prague orloj, is a medieval astronomical clock located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Astronomical Clock - PRAGUE

[666candies]

Astronomical clock in Venice

[theownerofsich]

Prague Astronomical Clock,installed in 1410

[akimao]

Pretty things in Prague 🇨🇿

[m1male2]

Astronomical clock in Prague, Czechia.

[travelling-my-little-pony]

June is the month that Night Glider goes to look around Exeter Cathedral - mainly to admire the huge model Earth by Luke Jerram that was suspended from the ceiling!

In Devon, England.

Night Glider is looking more closely at the 15th century cathedral clock, which apparently inspired the nursery rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock. The quote below is from https://paulineconolly.com/2013/exter-cathedrals-curiosities/

I’m sure you know you how it goes;

Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, the mouse ran down, hickory dickory dock.

Anyway, the saying  goes that mice used to sneak into  the clock to nibble on the fat used to lubricate the  workings.  Now at some point during  the 17th century the Bishop owned  a cat, and he cut a hole in the door below the great  clock face so that the cat could  ea… well let’s be kind and  say chase the little wretches  away!  And this inspired the rhyme!!

[travellingstranger]

Celestial guide.

Pražský orloj

Prague, Czech Republic

[9th-empress-suravi]

[bakinochkame]

Легенда гласит, что Пражские советники 15 века боялись, что великий часовщик Микулаш сделает другие, лучшие часы для другого города, поэтому они его ослепили. Сведенный с ума слепотой, часовщик бросился в винтики собственного шедевра, вечно проклиная любого, кто пытался это исправить.

(На видео скелетик дергает за колокольчик,отбивает время и вверху движутся святые)

🌏🌐📸

[burnsong]

astronomical clock, venice

[rrwan]

Prague,

26 August 2023 - 10:19 PM.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Astronomical Clock - PRAGUE

[travelonourown]

[olena]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurion

A tellurion (also spelled tellurian, tellurium, and yet another name is loxocosm), is a clock, typically of French or Swiss origin, surmounted by a mechanism that depicts how day, night, and the seasons are caused by the rotation and orientation of Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun. The clock normally also displays the age of the Moon and the four-year (perpetual) calendar.

[ingloriousweasel]