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