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View of the Tower of the Winds and the Acropolis – J. Stuart & N. Revett - 1751

View of the Tower of the Winds and the Acropolis – J. Stuart & N. Reve...

The Tower of the Winds, built in 50 BC, is an octagonal Pentelic-marble clocktower that functioned as a horologion or “timepiece” (the world's first meteorological station) in the Roman Agora in Athens: Tower... More