Varro's book on agriculture describes an aviary with a wooden dome decorated with the eight winds that is compared by analogy to the eight winds depicted on the Tower of the Winds, which was built in Athens at about the same time.
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Richard Cockle Lucas ( 1800 1883 ), the sculptor, lived in Chilworth from 1854 onwards, originally at " The Tower of the Winds " ( which stood opposite the former " Clump Inn " ), and later at the nearby " Chilworth Tower ".
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The Tower of the Winds is situated in prominent view just to the north of the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter ( ROQ ), an area for Oxford University departments including the Blavatnik School of Government, and south of Observatory Street, named after its former use as an observatory.
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By 1582, the Gregorian calendar had been established, creating the modern year of 365 days and an occasional leap year of 366 days . Danti was rewarded with a commission to build a solar observatory in the Vatican itself within the Torre dei Venti, or Tower of the Winds.
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The oldest known octagon-shaped building is the Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece, which was constructed circa 300 B . C . Octagon houses were popularized in the United States in the mid-19th century and there are too many to list here, see instead List of octagon houses.
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Also, a Greek astronomer, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, supervised the construction of his Horologion, known today as the Tower of the Winds, in the Athens marketplace ( or agora ) in the first half of the 1st century BCE . This octagonal clocktower showed scholars and shoppers both sundials and mechanical hour indicators.
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In his " Attic Nights " ( written c . 159 ), the Athens-raised Latin writer Aulus Gellius, possibly inspired by the Tower of the Winds in that city, reduces the Latin rose to from twelve to eight winds, the principal winds, for which he gives both the Latin and Greek terms.
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The design of the building is unique; the house contains twenty rooms on three floors with a rectangular front porch containing four columns carved with a lotus leaf shape, reminiscent of the Tower of the Winds in Athens . during the times of Elizabeth Gaskell the walls were described as a " stone-colour ".
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The 252 architectural models in the collection are : 118 of Soane's own buildings including 44 of the Bank of England, covering details, facades, rooms as well as complete buildings, these include : Erechtheion, Tower of the Winds, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Pantheon, Rome, Temple of Vesta, Tivoli, Temple of Antoninus and Faustina and the Temple of Portunus, the buildings are depicted as reconstructions not in their current ruined state.
