HYDROSCOPE, an instrument anciently used for the measuring of time.
The hydrocope was a kind of water-clock, consisting
Hydrostatics. ing of a cylindrical tube, conical at bottom: the cylinder was graduated, or marked out with divisions, to which the top of the water becoming successively
contiguous, as it trickled out at the vertex of the Hydrostatics. cone, pointed out the hour. See HYDROSTATICS, n° 41, 42.