Dear Gianni, Once again, you give a splendid reply!
Your explanation of the transition from Temporary Hours to Equal Hours is a very complete answer to my question. I can see that the advent of tower clocks simply forced the pace of change. > In Italy today all dialists to point out the hours > from sunset speak of "Italic Hours"... Yes and, of course, this is true for diallists all over the world. You are right, unfortunately, that... > other people don't even know what they are :-) I have Italian colleagues, academic mathematicians and engineers, all educated in Italy but who had never heard of Italic Hours until I gave them a lesson! This is a failure of education :-) > Obviously in the books written in Turkish > ( I have one !)... I cannot compete :-) > I think that the persons of the communities of > the Mount Athos never speak of "Byzantine hours" > in English... I agree. I now speculate that "Byzantine hours" is simply how some translator chose to describe this time. > But in the tourist bulletins (entry in M. At. 35 euro, > about 50 $) the schedules are all in our modern hours :-) Your research energy is remarkable! Perhaps the people of Mount Athos should publish separate schedules using Italian Hours. They could offer a discount price to tourists who understand these times? Thank you again Best wishes Frank --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
