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History of Clocks
Title: History of Clocks
Category: History
Details: Words: 2941 | Pages: 12.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
History of Clocks
The clock is one of the most influential discoveries in the history of western science. The division of time into regular, predictable units is fundamental to the operation of society. Even in ancient times, humanity recognized the necessity of an orderly system of chronology. Hesiod, writing in the 8th century BC., used celestial bodies to indicate agricultural cycles: "When the Pleiads, Atlas' daughters, start to rise begin your harvest; plough when they go down" ( Hesiod 71). …showed first 75 words of 2941 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2941 total…the time on an armillary sphere, it is quite difficult to perpetually mimic the motion of the sun around the earth. The invention of stereography by Hipparchos made the construction of a dynamic representation of the heavens possible through the combination of planispheric projections with the clepsydra. The anaphoric clock and its cousin, the astrolabe, not only helped Ptolemy create the extensive catalogue in the Almagest, but also established the foundation of modern time keeping.
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