Tony Finch scripsit: > > That poster did not mention Machiavelli, but I think that's very much > > the point. > > Perhaps because he predates clocks :-)
Actually not. Machiavelli's dates are 1469-1527, by which time mechanical clocks were all over the place. The oldest surviving such clock in Europe is that in Salisbury Cathedral, dated 1386. -- Andrew Watt on Microsoft: John Cowan Never in the field of human computing [EMAIL PROTECTED] has so much been paid by so many http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to so few! (pace Winston Churchill) _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
