Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time
TTBOOK Presents: Deep Time
The Tension Between Mechanical Man-Made Time and Natural Seasonal Time
People in medieval and Renaissance Europe had a much more sophisticated connection with time than we do now. An hour wasn't always fixed, an hour was one-twelfth of the time between sunrise and sunset. If you were keeping time because of your religion, where you might need to get up to pray at sunrise or sunset, it's really important that you mark sunrise and sunset in your time system.
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