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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