Crossword-Solution: DONDI 5 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

When DONDI raised the great astronomical clock at the University of Padua, which was long the admiration of Europe, it gave a name and nobility to its maker and all his descendants.

John di Dondi, his physician, or rather his friend, for he would have no physician, would not quit Padua without going to see him.

Among the many globes which he constructed our museum possesses one of surpassing excellence, in that it exhibits, in addition to other movements, that which astrologers call the movement of trepidation, and which movement was set forth in theory by Thebit.”[285] The Emperor Charles V, when in Pavia, we are told, had his attention directed to an armillary sphere constructed by Dondi in the fourteenth century.

Prominent in one place was a tall massive clock, copper and brass, a _chef-d’[oe]uvre_ of Dondi the horologist, which thudded the hours melodiously, like a chime of distant bells, and made the swooning senses in love with time.

Archimedes and Posidonius before, the Christian era, Boëthius in the 5th century, Pacificus about the middle of the 9th, Gerbert at the end of the 10th, Wallingford near the beginning of the 14th, and Dondi at the end of the 14th, have each in their turn been asserted to be the inventors of the clock.