Bernard Gitton (); born 24 June 1935) is a French physicist and artist who has built modern

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s, fountains and other devices relating art and science.

Biography

He constructed " The Water Clock", at

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, "Clepsydra Water Clock" at

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, " Time Flow Clock" Europa Center,

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, and "Time-Flow Clock" Rødovre Centrum,

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. Also, he projected the Water Clocks displayed at the Iguatemi Mall in São Paulo city and the Iguatemi Mall in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The clock stands there since 1983. One of his clocks was installed in the 1990s at

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in Nagoya, Japan. In 2011 a Waterclock of Gitton was installed in the entrance hall of NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam/the Netherlands

References

External links

*http://sites.google.com/site/simeonlapinbleu/gitton *http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/Cadran-clepsydre.html
http://iguatemi.com.br/saopaulo/servicos/relogio/
*https://web.archive.org/web/20150924033251/http://www.iguatemiportoalegre.com.br/blog/o-curioso-relogio-d%E2%80%99agua/ 1935 births Living people 20th-century French artists 20th-century French physicists French clockmakers {{France-artist-stub