-PJ
Monsignor Pope Ping!
I think some used Mountain Shadows, Sun Dials and Hour Glasses.
There are certain flowers that only bloom at night or under Moonlight. These include the Evening Primrose. Moonflowers as well. Moonflowers stay open all night and close when the first rays of sunlight touch their petals. Many Night Blooms have a heavy fragrance to help moths and other insects find them, such as Night Gladiolus and the very expensive Casablanca Lily.
When I take my family or when went with students to remote isolated areas of the world, we discard the watches, the phones, and the computers.
No time, just the sun, moon and if you are on the coast, tides.
It’s liberating, its quality time.
Sundials may date back to 1500 BC, and other means of artificially measuring time to well BC. The system was well enough known to time the Crucifixion to a precision of one hour (though, occurring during the day, the sundial would have sufficed).
Something like our modern daylight time would have seemed pretty silly to the ancients, however.
Dawn, mid day, dusk, night. It’s always in that order. Who needs a clock for herding sheep?
Easy. If it was light outside, it was daytime. If it was dark outside, it was nighttime.
-PJ
Yeah cause my boss wouldn’t give a #### if i was an hour late because reading the Sun I was little off that day.
Or for the next New Years Eve party I’ll go by the stars and hope i make it on time.
Time wasn’t invented by man. Modern man created a Much easier way for regular folk to know what the hell time it is.
Another article telling us how bad we are for dding nothing wrong.
Catholic guilt. The hardest part of staying with my religion for a long time.
I think God would die laughing at some of these articles
On the contrary, I would have thought that time-keeping during the (starry) night would have been more precise.
I would imagine that, back then, even laypersons had a greater familiarity with the stars and constellations - in which case the constellations grouped near the North Star (Polaris) could be viewed as the face of a clock.
Simply drop a plumb-line (or eyeball it) from the North Star, and wait until a particular star swings through that line.
Regards,
bttt
Thanks for posting this, it’s very interesting. I’m going to share it with a gal at work, we were just talking about time and how it is measured the other day.
Quite interesting about the 7 day week, that’s the kind of thing that make you realize how much there is in the world that you just never think about.
So did Andrew and the other disciple stay with Jesus until ten in the morning or four in the afternoon?
BTT.
Bookmark.
The hard part was getting the rooster to crow an hour earlier during daylight savings time.
The hard part was getting the rooster to crow an hour earlier during daylight savings time.
They are called hour glasses.
How did they get anything done with no congress to fores the Idiotic Daylight Saving Time on them? /sarc