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Ai Khanoum
ancient chronology
ancient time measurement methods
Antikythera Mechanism
Author_Robert Hannah
Babylonian timekeeping
Category=NHC
celestial
classical science history
clock
Conical Sundial
Egyptian Calendar
Egyptian horology
Eleventh Hour
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equinoctial
Equinoctial Hours
Equinoctial Lines
Greek astronomy
hours
lines
Lunar
Lunar Months
Metonic Cycle
Mount Lykabettos
NCP
Plane Dial
Roman scientific instruments
seasonal
Seasonal Hours
Seasonal Year
Shadow Lengths
Shadow Tables
Solar Year
solstice
Star Calendar
Stone Sundial
summer
Summer Solstice Sunrise
Sun's Altitude
Sun’s Altitude
water
Water Clock
Winter Solstice
year
Product details
- ISBN 9780415331555
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Time in Antiquity offers a detailed survey of the science of time and its measurement in the Greek and Roman worlds, including Babylon and Egypt where many of the first advances were made. Robert Hannah focuses on the physical aspects of time measurement, locating the means of measurement, and the astronomers who developed these mechanisms, within their scientific context for the first time. This is a unique contribution to the understanding of the ancient world and its thinking, and is of interest to classicists, historians of the ancient world and of science, philosophers, and anthropologists.
University of Otago, New Zealand
