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

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English: 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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_the_Winds
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Source Stuart, James & Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Αrchitects, vol. III (ed. Willey Reveley), London, John Nichols, 1794
Author James Stuart (1713-1788) και Nicholas Revett (1720-1804)

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View of the Tower of the Winds and the Acropolis in Ottoman Athens in 1751

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