RE: A different sort of timekeeping

[Dave Bell]

Possibly related method??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETz0elhKvkM

 

Dave

 

From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Dan-George Uza
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 2:51 AM
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: A different sort of timekeeping

 

Dear group,

 

Here's an interesting trivia from a German book written by Helga Pohl: "Wenn 
dein Schatten sechzehn Fuss misst, Berenike" (1955).

 

While talking about ancient Chinese timekeeping, she mentions that they used 
water clocks and the shadows of the edges of their homes to tell approximate 
time. However... an entirely different approach involved looking into the eyes 
of cats, a practice that is also shown to be used in 20th century Switzerland 
in a slightly modified form: in the area around Graubunden, shepherds tell time 
by looking into the eyes of their goats. I am completely at a loss about how 
this could possibly work! 

 

 

Dan Uza 

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A different sort of timekeeping

[Dan-George Uza]

Dear group,

Here's an interesting trivia from a German book written by Helga Pohl: "Wenn
dein Schatten sechzehn Fuss misst, Berenike" (1955).

While talking about ancient Chinese timekeeping, she mentions that they
used water clocks and the shadows of the edges of their homes to tell
approximate time. However... an entirely different approach involved
looking into the eyes of cats, a practice that is also shown to be used in
20th century Switzerland in a slightly modified form: in the area around
Graubunden, shepherds tell time by looking into the eyes of their goats. I
am completely at a loss about how this could possibly work!


Dan Uza
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