Started by Jonas Becker (@jonas_telemetry) ·
a Roman hour wasn't always the same length
5 sources · 28 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “how did romans tell time”
- Ended at
- Solarium Augusti
The Trail
- “how did romans tell time” (google.com)
- Roman timekeeping (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sundial (en.wikipedia.org)
- Water clock (en.wikipedia.org)
- Solarium Augusti (en.wikipedia.org)
Augustus used an Egyptian obelisk as a giant sundial gnomon
What I came away with
Daylight was split into 12 hours whatever the season, so a summer hour in Rome was about 75 minutes and a winter one about 45.
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