Frank King scripsit:
Do you have a reference (source) for this quote? (not doubting you, but I may want to reference it in some articles I'm writing)Equal hours were not, though, used for governing ordinary life. As Gianni Ferrari says:For what I know the equal hours were never used in western classical antiquity by the common people and they were used only from astronomers and scholars in their calculations of the durations of periods of time (Ptolemy, etc.) The only system of hours used was that of the temporary or seasonal hours: 12 hours from dawn to sunset (period of light) and 12 hours from sunset to dawn (night). Keith --
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Col Keith E. Brandt, MD, MPH USAF-NASA Aerospace Medicine Liaison Officer Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Goodbye cruel world that was my home- there's cleaner space out here to roam Put my feet up on the moons of Mars- sit back, relax, and count the stars *This message transmitted with 100% recycled electrons |
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