Hello Keith, perhaps you may find some news here http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Dies.html Best wishes Gianni
2008/8/22 Keith E. Brandt, WD9GET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Frank King scripsit: > > 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). > > > > 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) > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > -- Gianni Ferrari Mail to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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