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The Tower of the Winds is an octagonal structure in the Roman Agora in Athens, Greece, that Andronicus of Cyrrhus erected around 100-500 B.C. Considered the world's first meteorological station, the tower stands 12.8 m (42 ft) high and features sundials, a water clock, and a weather vane. The tower is also known as a horologion (a Greek term for a sundial or timekeeping device) or horologium (the Latin name), and its water clock showed the time when the sun was not shining. The friezes along the top of the tower represent each wind direction and face a point on the sundial.

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