法國天文學家尼可拉·路易·拉卡伊在好望角停留兩年,觀察並分類上萬顆南天恆星,然後在1756年劃分時鐘座,選擇的星座名稱是「l'Horloge à pendule & à secondes」,意指鐘擺[1][2]。他在歐洲無法觀測的南天球星空劃出14個星座,其中13個用象徵啟蒙時代的科學儀器命名[注 1]。拉卡伊去世後,星座法語名稱在1763年發佈的星圖中已拉丁化成「Horologium」[3],拉丁語名是由古希臘語「ὡρολόγιον」派生,意指計時擺鐘[4]。
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