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How They Did It - Telling Time in Ancient Rome
🕑 Added 2019-04-28 20:44:27 +0000 UTCI was inspired to make this documentary while trying to estimate the time using the sun while out on a hike. This got me thinking about what tools someone in the past would have had at their disposal. I'm pleased to be able to share with you some of their clever techniques that I discovered.
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Invicta
The very pointy looking one is an illustration of Plato's alarm clock. Here is a link I just pulled up: https://www.booksfact.com/technology/ancient-technology/ancient-alarm-clock-plato-4th-century-bce.html
matt
For the water clock being used in a court setting did you have a source for that? It happens in Apuleius's "The Golden Ass" but I'm looking for additional source for the clocks being used in that manner.
