Rick Measham schreef:> figured this is a sine wave.In his question, he assumes that each period (night/day) should be evenly divided into 12 parts. However this stinks to me! Surely in the middle of winter, the hour before sunrise shouldn't be a heap longer than the hour after? Surely the lengths of hours should slowly decrease towards noon and then increase again towards midnight. I
At 9:39 PM +0200 19/6/03, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
That would perhaps be nicer for us computer-owning people, but that wasn't how it was implemented in ancient times. It is really much easier to have only two different hour lengths per day. You only need two different clepsydras that way.
Sorry, I should have said that I wasn't interested in the historical context for this, only in the mathmatics behind it. I realised that historically they wouldn't have done what I was suggesting, but as you say, for us computer owning people it would be nice.
Sorry for the confusion
Cheers!
Rick
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