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A Brief History Of Clocks: From Thales To Ptolemy
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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 indic ....
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....pher Thales. Unfortunately, little is known about Thales’ sphere beyond Cicero’s description in the De re publica:
For Gallus told us that the other kind of celestial globe,
which was solid and contained no hollow space, was a very
early invention, the first one of that kind having been
constructed by Thales of Mileus, and later ma.... |
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