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Cyrrhus

Cyrrhus, Cyrrus, or Kyrros may refer to:*Cyrrhus, a city in ancient Macedon, the modern Kyrros, located near Pella.*Cyrrhus, Syria, a city founded by Seleucus Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals....
 (Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
:??d??????? ?????st??) or Andronicus Cyrrhestes,son of Hermias, was a Greek
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 astronomer
Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
 who flourished about 100 BC.

He built a horologium
Horologium

Horologium is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky . Its name is Latin for clock. It was created in the eighteenth century by Abb? Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, who originally named it Horologium Oscillitorium after the pendulum clock to honour its inventor, Christiaan Huygens....
 at Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, the so-called Tower of the Winds
Tower of the Winds

The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion , is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower on the Ancient Rome agora in Athens. The structure features a combination of sundials, a water clock and a wind vane....
, a considerable portion of which still exists. It is octagonal, with figures carved on each side, representing the eight principal winds.






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Andronicus of Cyrrhus
Cyrrhus

Cyrrhus, Cyrrus, or Kyrros may refer to:*Cyrrhus, a city in ancient Macedon, the modern Kyrros, located near Pella.*Cyrrhus, Syria, a city founded by Seleucus Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals....
 (Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
:??d??????? ?????st??) or Andronicus Cyrrhestes,son of Hermias, was a Greek
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 astronomer
Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
 who flourished about 100 BC.

He built a horologium
Horologium

Horologium is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky . Its name is Latin for clock. It was created in the eighteenth century by Abb? Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, who originally named it Horologium Oscillitorium after the pendulum clock to honour its inventor, Christiaan Huygens....
 at Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, the so-called Tower of the Winds
Tower of the Winds

The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion , is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower on the Ancient Rome agora in Athens. The structure features a combination of sundials, a water clock and a wind vane....
, a considerable portion of which still exists. It is octagonal, with figures carved on each side, representing the eight principal winds. In antiquity a bronze figure of Triton on the summit, with a rod in his hand, turned round by the wind, pointed to the quarter from which it blew. From this model is derived the custom of placing weathercocks on steeples.