Hi all,
Two years ago there was a discussion on this list about various types of
hours, from which I cite the following fragments, about canonical
(ecclesiastical) hours.
Fer de Vries described the canonical hour as:
Draw half a circle on a south facing vertical plane and devide the circle in
... My question then is: is there a general name for the hours
shown on a canonical dial?
Yes, of course. The word is simply hours. There are no other names because
in medieval time they used the same latin language, there are some sundials
that have the standard division (12,
Strictly, that means houses, as in astrological houses. In an
astrological chart, there are 12 of them alright, but (depending on
which system of house division is used, i.e., which method of
projecting the ecliptic onto the horizon) that would be equivalent to
2 hours, or less, or more
