Category: History - Ancient
Time as an abstraction. -- Ancient divisions of day and night. -- Night watches of the Old Testament. -- Quarter days and hours of the New Testament. -- Shadow, or sun time. -- Noon mark dials. -- Ancient dials of Herculaneum and Pompeii. -- Modern dials. -- Equation of time....
Astronomical motions on which our time is founded. -- Reasons for selecting the sidereal day as a basis for our 24-hour day. -- Year of the seasons shorter than the zodiacal yea...
7. CHAPTER IIIDeVick's clock of 1364. -- Original "verge" escapement. -- "Anchor" and "dead beat" escapements. -- "Remontoir" clock. -- The pendulum. -- Jeweling pallets. -- Antique clock wit...
6. CHAPTER IIChinese and Japanese divisions of the day. -- Hours of varying length. -- Setting clocks to length of daylight. -- Curved line dials. -- Numbering hours backwards and strange re...
5. CHAPTER ITime as an abstraction. -- Ancient divisions of day and night. -- Night watches of the Old Testament. -- Quarter days and hours of the New Testament. -- Shadow or sun time. -- N...
4. CHAPTER IVAstronomical motions on which our time is founded. -- Reasons for selecting the sidereal day as a basis for our 24-hour day. -- Year of the seasons shorter than the zodiacal yea...
2. CHAPTER IIChinese and Japanese divisions of the day. -- Hours of varying length. -- Setting clocks to length of daylight. -- Curved line dials. -- Numbering hours backwards and strange re...
3. CHAPTER IIIDe Vick's clock of 1364. -- Original "verge" escapement. -- "Anchor" and "dead beat" escapements. -- "Remontoir" clock. -- The pendulum. -- Jeweling pallets. -- Antique clock wi...
1. CHAPTER ITime as an abstraction. -- Ancient divisions of day and night. -- Night watches of the Old Testament. -- Quarter days and hours of the New Testament. -- Shadow, or sun time. --...