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Dr Seb Falk Interview - "The Light Ages" - Science in the Middle Ages

History for Atheists

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The Decline of the Clock

The clock itself doesn't survive. It was destroyed at the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century. There is a description that says it had some kind of a tide or gauge. And there's a table in a St Albans manuscript which shows the flood tide, the time when the current changes in London.

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