Posted on 11/08/2017 4:04:43 PM PST by mairdie
One day around 2,000 years ago, a Roman named Marcus Novius Tubula ordered an elaborate sundial, University of Cambridge researchers report after finding it intact two millennia later during excavation in the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas, near Monte Cassino, in Italy.
Carved in limestone and 54 centimeters in width, the sundial's concave face was engraved with 11 hour lines intersecting three day curves. Thus the device could give indicate the season: the winter solstice, equinox and summer solstice, the archaeologists say. Its gnomon (pointer) was mostly gone, but a bit of it survived under lead fixing.
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Nonsense.
University of Cambridge researchers report
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after finding it intact two millennia later
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during excavation
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in the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas, near Monte Cassino, in Italy.
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Carved in limestone and 54 centimeters in width
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, the sundial's concave face was engraved with 11 hour lines intersecting three day curves.
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Thus the device could give indicate the season: the winter solstice, equinox and summer solstice,
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the archaeologists say.
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Its gnomon (pointer) was mostly gone,
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but a bit of it survived under lead fixing.
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on the collections database that was used to track the collection there.
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This was back in the 90s.
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I worked there in 1967.
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Once the Romans lost control of Egypt and the paper industry literacy declined.
Even lacking the printing press the Romans had wide spread literacy and even mass market fiction best sellers because they had a cheap and abundant supply of paper.
The printing press was greatly aided by the fact that the concept of "rag paper" had been imported from China giving the printers once again a cheap and abundant supply of paper.
I was a field service tech for most of my working career. While visiting Constellation Brands’ new corporate headquarters just outside of Canandaigua, NY I noticed above the receptionists’ desk was a huge sunroof. Hanging just below it was a kind of inverted sundial. The idea was that the shade would shadow the receptionist to keep her cool. Only thing was that the sun moves throughout the day.
She baked.
That’s a really fun story. Ideas are so good, and implementations of them can be so strange. Sounds like a fascinating job to have. All sorts of different environments and I’m sure some weird problems to solve.
I’ve spent a lot of time in Canandaigua. Gibson St. was named for my 3rd great grandfather, so I’ve researched there multiple times. Walked along what had been the railroad tracks trying to find old pieces of ties. Lovely historical society with really nice people.
That is a price tag. Think I’ll stick with my paper turning thingie. Really loved the link.
*** “I want a sundial like that. 8>)” ***
I would too ... I’d put it where a Tree used to be.
(I’m in South Texas ... “Hey Harvey Blow Me” it has nothing to do with Hollywood)
> Nonsense.
believe what you want.
I 100% agree. I was watching “The Truth Project” and remember one of the statements about a law professor. He made his students read the Federalist Papers. They would complain it was hard to read. The professor told them, you’re right, it was only written so the average farmer could understand it...
The New England Primer had some amazing things to teach 1st graders.
Marcus Novius Tubula also invented the jacuzzi. Thanks mairdie.
Very cool
That's pretty cool. Won't work on a cloudy day though. :-)
True. On those days you have to tell your boss that your cannon didn’t go off.
“Marcus Novius Tubula”
The workers, upon completing this amazing masterpiece exclaimed “That’s like totally Tubula!”
I hate when that happens.
In Fall, you get that hour back, one single time.
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This would be true if spring forward was for 6 months and fall back was for 6 months. This use to be the case, but over the last twenty years, the time periods have changed.
In March, we spring forward an hour.
In November we fall back an hour.
From March till November is a 7 months time period
From November to March is a 5 months time period
It is not divided equally as 6 months of one and 6 months of the other.
The net difference of the current setup is one month deficit.
You don’t get the hour back if the months are not balanced.
Tell me where I am wrong.
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