How was the measurement of time before the hour
How many times have you asked, "What time is it?" And turned to your wrist only to find that you forgot to put on your watch. We have become so programmed to know what time it is and schedule our lives around it second nature to bend your arm, turn your wrist and get the answer. It was not always easy to do, or even necessary as you will see by looking back to a time before clocks and watches.
Like night and day
The precision with which we measure time today is light years away from how it was done, and not so long ago. Once the time has been measured entirely of the universe around us - and still is to a certain extent when you understand science and physics behind the measurement of time and makes working around the clock (more on this in Part 2). What was known earlier civilizations and reliable in every day was that the sun came out and I went down and that became a block of time in the day. To measure larger areas, the moon and reliable sessions was also observed. Moon was used to measure the time period that came to be known as the month - more technically lunar month of 28 days - or the time it takes the moon to go from Crescent new full and new again.
Ancient civilization
Has been measured more than just observers moon, sun, planets, and there are artifacts that show us that time is a little more accurate. Was found in the early calendars "clocks" in what is now Iraq, once the residence of the ancient Sumerians, and consists of a calendar that has been divided into segments for 30 days according to the lunar cycle. Then it was divided into 12 sections which is equivalent to 2 hours from the current time. Moreover, it was a lump of the calendar to 30 parts equivalent to more than a minute in the modern era 4.
Stonehenge is located in England and built more than 4,000 years ago. Not much is understood completely obscure this structure, but the way is put her scientists to believe that it somehow was used to record seasons and the phenomenon of lunar eclipse and the like.
Sundials
Sumerian culture passed away without information about the timekeeping of being discovered until modern times. Was used in the next stage of measuring time more accurately than by the Egyptians. Obelisk created around 3500 BC, which looked like the Washington Monument today, known to visitors from the country's capital. This would tall, tapered monument cast shadows throughout the day, but it was still primitive in how closely can measure time periods. They reflect often change between morning and afternoon, and how will the days shorter or longer with the seasons.
Was first used Sundials on the other hand about 1500 BC and was the timer is much smaller and more portable. Has been divided into 10 equal parts with two additional segments representing twilight and dawn. The Sundial itself appeared after that of the horizontal plate to form a bowl with a handle and lines to mark off the runway hour. It is believed that by 30 BC there were more than 13 different styles of sundials used in advanced societies of Asia Minor, Italy, and Greece.
When one thinks about the accuracy of a Swiss watch and finely crafted hard to imagine the time it was time very vague. Can operate without measurements community time to very precise? Maybe in another community Millennium wonder how it works and we live in a time and only one.
This is the first of a series of articles on the development of measuring time, and how come clocks to become what it is today.
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