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	Tower of the Winds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The frieze of the tower showing the Greek wind gods Boreas (north wind, on the left) and Skiron (northwesterly wind, on the right).
		The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion (timepiece), is an octagonal Pentelic marble tower on the Roman agora in Athens.
		It was partly buried in the ground until it was fully excavated in the 19th century by the Greek Archaeological Society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tower_of_the_Winds (232 words)

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		Tower of the Winds is a unique scroll book that follows the written record of a wondrous monument standing at the edge of the roman agora in Athens.
		Yet the Tower of the Winds was and still is a mystery to those involved in the complex study of it.
		The reproductions of the tower are from the remarkable artwork of James Stuart and Nicolas Revett, the British architects whose written description and exquisite drawings inspired a new architecture in England and influenced Thomas Jefferson and others in America.
	colophon.com /foolscap/tower.html (452 words)

	The Tower of Winds (Horologion of Andronicos)
		The tower with its Doric interior and its Corinthian exterior featured a 24 hour mechanized clepsydra and indicators for the eight winds from which the tower got its name, and it displayed the seasons of the year and astrological dates and periods.
		In the period 1837 – 1845 the tower was excavated by the Greek Archaeological Society.
		On the top of the roof of this tower a brazen Triton with a rod in its right hand moved on a pivot, and pointed to the figure of the quarter in which the wind lay.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/TowerWinds.htm (1097 words)

	The Ancient City of Athens: Roman Agora & Tower of the Winds
		The Roman Agora and the Tower of the Winds
		Kienast, H. "The Tower of the Winds in Athens: Hellenistic or Roman?" in
		Quicktime VR Panoramas of the Roman Agora and Tower of the Winds (B. Hartzler,
	www.stoa.org /athens/sites/romagora.html (455 words)

	Gods of the Winds
		A Priestess of the Winds was named on the Tablet from Mycenaean Knossos written in Linear Script B. Such function in the Knossos palace is giving us proof that the cult of the winds was an important one and that its deities existed there.
		The myth is saying that the Gods of the Winds were the children of Astraeus, the God of the Night-sky and father of the stars and the Goddess of Morning Eos.
		The tower, which was built as a horologion (time-clock) in the half part of the first century BCE by the Syrian architect Andronicus Cyrrhestes, was made on the ground-plan of the eight angles.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/g/gods_of_the_winds.html (1238 words)

	Taming the Winds
		By ‘marginal Winds’ we should make it clear that we mean those Wind-gods that do not feature in the literature as frequently as Boreas and Zephyrus, who have no real myths of their own (such as Eurus and Notus), or who symbolise transient winds such as the Etesians (meltemi).
		We have already seen Notus depicted on the Tower of the Winds as a youthful figure pouring rain-showers upon the earth, which is but one aspect of the south wind.
		The Winds appear on the east side, and thus fit Simon’s hypothesis better than those of Puchstein and Robert: Boreas, Notus and Zephyrus are sons of Eos and Astraius, making them great-grandsons of Uranus and Gaia; their inclusion on the east side is therefore in keeping with Simon’s Hesiodic key (333).
	www.angelfire.com /al3/anemokoitai/marginals.html (3994 words)

	Tower of the winds - Athens - Horologion of Andronicos - Tower of winds
		Tower of the winds - Athens - Horologion of Andronicos - Tower of winds
		In the early Christian period, the Tower of the Winds was converted into a church.
		The south wind Notus was known as a very dynamic, stormy and dangerous wind especially when seamen were sailing.
	www.sailingissues.com /yachting-guide/tower-of-the-winds.html (760 words)

	Sheba Tower Calibrations - Sonic Winds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The RWD and wind speed (WS) were then converted to u and v components where positive u was defined as coming from the direction the sensors were pointed.
		As another check I used the measurements of wind stress and heat flux to extrapolate the wind vector from level 1 to the upper levels, similar to what was done for temperature.
		The sonic wind calibration errors were quite large, particularly the slope effects, which in one case was almost 10%.
	www.weather.nps.navy.mil /~psguest/sheba/tower_cal/wind.html (2104 words)

	Toyo Ito Interview at The Take
		During the day the tower appears to be of solid aluminum; after the sun sets, lights come on from within, fluctuating according to outside cues such as wind and noise, giving the building an appearance of fluidity and movement.
		Tower of Winds is exemplary of Ito's style--authoritative, arresting, technologically sophisticated, even futuristically minimal but also deeply informed by cultural history and the shifting, ever-present natural materials--wind, light, sound, space.
		ITO: Tower of Winds was made as a ventilation and water tank facility for a shopping center buried right underneath it.
	www.thetake.com /take05/take04/html/42ndst.html (637 words)

	Tower Legends: Aeolus and the Tower of the Winds
		Tower Legends: Aeolus and the Tower of the Winds
		This tower had its origin in a daydream of Andronicus, lover of winds and stars; for, in spite of the belief of the early Greeks that all dreams live under the earth, Andronicus made his dream live actually on the earth, in plain sight of the Athenians.
		Wind lover that he was, he decided, then--when asked to build a tower--to have all the winds seen flying around this tower.
	www.sacred-texts.com /etc/tl/tl05.htm (2143 words)

	Horologion of Andronicos (Tower of the Winds) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the top of each of the eight sides there is a relief representation of a wind, symbolized by a male figure with the appropriate attributes and its name inscribed on the stone.
		The tower was built in the first half of the 1st century B.C. by the astronomer Andronicos, from Kyrrhos in Macedonia.
		n the early Christian period, the Tower of the Winds was converted into a church or a baptesterion of an adjacent church, while the area outside the NE entrance was occupied by a Christian cemetery.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21101n/e211an01.html (254 words)

	The Roman Agora
		The Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronicos) and the East Propylon are visible in this picture.
		The Tower of the Winds as seen from the Acropolis with the southwest, south, southeast and east winds visible.
		The south, southeast and east faces of the Tower of the Winds.
	www.grisel.net /roman_agora.htm (792 words)

	Ethan Frome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The "Dictionary of Winds" refers to them as "anemophiles." They firmly believe that time is infinite, and they are not interested in how much of it has already passed; after all, there is no limit to infinity and there is no limit to the changes of the world in it.
		The height of the tower is 12.8 meters, the diameter is 7.9 meters.
		WIND -- "movement of air, as a rule, horizontally" according to the definition of the chronists, and "the absence of calm" according to the definition of the anemophiles.
	www.chronos.msu.ru /EREPORTS/gerasimchuk_dictionary.htm (12509 words)

	Athens Roman Agora
		The tower - built as a water clock, with a compass, sundials and weathervane - has a relief on each of the 8 sides depicting the wind from that direction.
		The rays of sundials are carved on each side, beneath the scenes of the winds, and inside the building was a water clock, which was operated by water running down from the Acropolis.
		The Vespasianae (public toilets), to the northwest of the Tower of the Winds.
	ah.phpwebhosting.com /a/OUTofBFLO/greece/ath/agrom (566 words)

	Rimbach Publishing - Pollution Equipment News - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Athenians built the eight-sided Tower of the Winds in the first century BC in honor of the eight gods of the winds.
		One of these is a thermal anemometer, that measures the temperature of a small element in the sensor, and calculates the wind by measuring the amount of energy carried away from the anemometer.
		Another technique used to measure the winds is to measure the vortices caused by a fixed shape that is projected into the wind.
	www.rimbach.com /scripts/Article/PEN/Number.idc?Number=43 (1661 words)

	Kimmeridge Clavell Tower, follies and folly towers at follytowers.com
		For some reason the family surname is spelt with a double 'L' on the end, yet the tower is shown on some maps spelt with a single 'L' at the end.
		The tower consists of 3 floors and a shallow basement, with the first 2 floors at least, having what appear to be fireplaces let into the walls.
		The tower sits high and exposed on the cliff top, so this could account for an alternative name it has of 'Tower of the Winds', though it is now generally known as Kimmeridge Tower.
	www.follies.btinternet.co.uk /kimtxt.html (683 words)

	Tower of the Winds -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The building's eight sides, which face points of the compass, are decorated with a frieze of figures in relief representing the winds; below it, on the sides facing the sun, are the lines of a sundial.
		Another monument is the octagonal, 42-foot-high marble Horologium of Andronicus of Cyrrhus, usually called the Tower of the Winds because each side bears a weatherbeaten figure of the wind from that particular compass point.
		This structure, called the White Tower, was begun in 1066 and completed several years later by William's son, William Rufus.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077180 (862 words)

	Palm Springs Windmills Damaged in High Winds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The failure of the wind turbine was the result of a tower failure, leaving the approximate 50,000 pound wind turbine dangling over 200 feet above the ground.
		Tower workers inspecting the damage shortly after the failure in March, 2005 said the turbine would be left to fall citing the danger of trying to remove it.
		However, in early April the company did attempt to fell the tower by cutting the four stanchion legs of the tower at ground level and then attempting to topple the tower using a front loader.
	gogov.com /windmills.htm (292 words)

	Weather Journal: Greek Tower of the Winds
		The Tower was originally topped by a revolving bronze weather vane which we know from historical records to have been of the sea god Triton, who had the head and torso of a man and the tail of a fish.
		The Tower, made of local marble, is decorated on each side with a sculpted figure of the wind deity ruling the compass point to which it faces.
		Half-buried by earth accumulating over the centuries, the Tower was excavated around 1840 and restored during the last century.
	www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/journal/2002/towerwind.htm (531 words)

	The Ancient City of Athens: Roman Agora & Tower of the Winds - 17/39 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos of Kyrrhos), with the Acropolis in the background.
		There are also fixtures for sundials on the exterior, below the personifications of the winds, so that you could tell the time from several different points of view from the outside.
		The Tower of the Winds was probably built in the mind 2nd century B.C. Also visible in the foreground of the photo is the public latrine, probably built in the 1st century A.D..
	www.stoa.org /athens/sites/romagora/source/p20105.html (199 words)

	www.nyloo.com - Roman Forum and the Tower of the Winds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It depicts the eight directions from which the wind blows and was built in the 1st century BC by Macedonian astronomer Andronikos.
		The winds are carved, along with their names and symbols, at the top of each side.
		The edifice was used to determine the direction of the wind and also as a sun clock and a hydraylic time piece.
	www.nyloo.com /html/ent/545/ent.20545.1.asp (343 words)

	Winds of the world Weatherwise
		And one of west winds of Arab lands is named laawan, "the helper," because it assists farmers in winnowing grain for threshing.
		Perhaps cruelest of all are the evil twins of Spain, the descuernacabras ("wind that de-horns goats") and its most violent form, the matacabras ("wind that kills goats").
		The bad-i-sad-o-bist-roz of Iran means "wind of 120 days." The Egyptian khamsin means "Lasting 50 days." Along the west coast of Mexico, tropical storms are cordonazo, the "lash of St. Francis." This mostly refers to the strong southerly winds; in any case, they peak near the Feast of St. Francis in early October.
	ggweather.com /windsoftheworld.htm (2236 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| England \| Dorset \| Doomed literary tower to be moved
		A tower which inspired novelists PD James and Thomas Hardy is to be dismantled and moved to stop it crumbling into the sea.
		Clavell Tower is perched perilously close to the edge of cliffs at Kimmeridge in Dorset.
		Also known as the Tower of the Winds, it was built in 1830 by the Reverend John Richards Clavell of Smedmore, who used it as an observatory for looking out over Kimmeridge Bay.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/3943521.stm (254 words)

	Eiffel Tower - Tour Eiffel, Paris
		However, the controversial tower elicited some strong reactions, and a petition of 300 names — including those of Maupassant, Emile Zola, Charles Garnier (architect of the Opéra Garnier), and Dumas the Younger — was presented to the city government, protesting its construction.
		In the construction of the Eiffel Tower, the curve of the base pylons was precisely calculated so that the bending and shearing forces of the wind were progressively transformed into forces of compression, which the bents could withstand more effectively.
		The Tallest Tower - Eiffel and the Belle Epoque, Joseph Harris, 1975, repr.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Paris/Monuments-Paris/Eiffel.shtml (1565 words)

	Greek Mythology: ANEMOI Gods of the Winds ( also Anemos Aetes Aetai Ventus Venti ) w/ Pictures
		Eight Wind-Gods are depicted on the C1st BC Tower of the Winds in Athens.
		Now the Winds assembled within the house of storm-blowing Zephyros were taking part in a feast, and Iris paused in her running and stood on the stone doorsill; but they, when their eyes saw her, sprang to their feet, and each one asked her to sit beside them.
		Meantime fierce Boreas [the North Wind] from his eyrie in Pangaeus spied the sails [of the Argonauts] set to the wind in the midst of the deep, and straightway turns his rapid course to Aeolia and the Tyrrhene caves.
	www.theoi.com /Titan/Anemoi.html (4473 words)

	The Weather Notebook \| Tower
		It is a monument to Aeolus: The Tower of the Winds.
		At the Tower of the Winds, they have their own characters, too, as Greeks personified the winds.
		The tower was excavated in the middle 1800’s and is a popular tourist attraction amid the Agora.
	www.weathernotebook.org /transcripts/2005/02/21.php (324 words)

	The Annotated "Franklin's Tower"
		[The winds were] "Boreas or Aquilo, the north wind; Zephyrus or Favonius, the west; Notus or Auster, the south; and Eurus, the east."--p.
		In Greece, the south wind blows mainly in the autumn.
		Pursuing that tidbit, I also stumbled across a Tower of the Winds in the Vatican, built by Gregory XIII, and known as the "Torre dei Venti." So, the idea of the winds living in a tower seems to be ancient and pervasive.
	arts.ucsc.edu /gdead/agdl/franklin.html (1232 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Andronikos of Kyrrhos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He is associated with a single building, the Tower of the Winds (Horologion) on the edge of the Roman agora in Athens, of which he was named the architect by Vitruvius (On Architecture I.vi.4).
		This elegant and ingenious small marble octagonal building was designed externally as a monumental sundial and weather-vane, with a representation of each of the eight winds carved on the sides of the octagon; at the apex of the roof was a bronze Triton that acted as a weathercock.
		The date of the Tower of the Winds, and hence of Andronikos, is uncertain.
	www.artnet.com /library/00/0028/T002823.asp (230 words)

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