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Reading Fall 2005

This homework assignment delves into the fascinating history of timepieces, including the ancient water clock, and their significance in civilization and culture. Students will engage in listening and reading activities about pivotal innovations in clock-making, specifically examining Plato's Apology and historical mechanisms. The exercises include writing down the complete title of their department, summarizing a watched movie, and memorizing key vocabulary relating to inventions and majesty in timekeeping. By exploring these themes, students will reflect on the broader implications of time as a human invention.

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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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