Dear Mario,
I have now read all your messages again. As Jim
Talliman says...
> Thanks for some very interesting scholarship!
One important thing you said is:
When in Italy the hour system changed with the
new hours "ab occasu solis", nothing changed
for lawyers and notaries, the roman civil day
still ruled and it rules till now.
TO CONFIRM: this means that the legal day and the
legal date always changed at midnight in Italy (in
Roman times, in times when Italian hours were used
and, of course, today)?
You also say:
When [in 1336] Milan built the first bell clock
with 24 hours counted "ab occasu" (by sunset)
something incredible happened... all Europe
changed hour system...
This (almost) suggests that the introduction of
clocks was responsible for the change in hour
systems in Europe but you then explain that...
It is not correct to say that clocks changed the
time system ... because there exist clocks before
the 24 italian hours and they can work with temporal
hours...
I can believe that the early clock-makers tried to
show temporal hours. IF such clocks existed then,
clearly, they would not change the time system because
they used old time system!
Here are two slightly different proposals.
1. It IS correct to say that EQUAL-HOURS clocks
changed the time system (and the Milan clock
is of special significance).
2. After the introduction of equal-hours clocks
the time system changed but it is unwise to
argue that these clocks CAUSED this change.
Which proposal do you prefer?
Very best wishes
Frank
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