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- From: whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
- Subject: Re: Period Calendar Wanted
- Reply-To: whheydt@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:21:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.192102.24652@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
- References: <725767220.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP> <1992Dec31.162934.22106@pbhya.PacBell.COM> <1992Dec31.172333.13978@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec31.172333.13978@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> awkerr@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Alan Kerr) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec31.162934.22106@pbhya.PacBell.COM> whheydt@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt) writes:
- >>Yup. A sundial. It was the development of mechanical clocks that
- >>changed things--eventually--to an all-hours-are-equal system.
- >>Remember that most of history is before mechanical clocks.
- >
- >...OK, I've seen the answer of 'sundial' a couple of times now. But
- >as far as I know of, it does *not* answer the question. A sundial
- >*will* self-adjust to the streaching and shrinking of *days*, but I
- >don't think that I've ever seen one that would adjust the day into
- >**12 equal hours**. Does this type of sundial exist?
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- Gee--and I thought all days had a Sidereal Period of (modern) 23 hours,
- 56 minutes.... :-)
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- Think about how you read a sundial--and how you mark it to be read....
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- --Hal
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- Hal Ravn, Province of the Mists, West Kingdom
- Wilson H. Heydt, Jr., Albany, CA 94706, 510/524-8321 (home)
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