Possibly related method?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETz0elhKvkM
Dave From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Dan-George Uza Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 2:51 AM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: A different sort of timekeeping Dear group, Here's an interesting trivia from a German book written by Helga Pohl: "Wenn dein Schatten sechzehn Fuss misst, Berenike" (1955). While talking about ancient Chinese timekeeping, she mentions that they used water clocks and the shadows of the edges of their homes to tell approximate time. However... an entirely different approach involved looking into the eyes of cats, a practice that is also shown to be used in 20th century Switzerland in a slightly modified form: in the area around Graubunden, shepherds tell time by looking into the eyes of their goats. I am completely at a loss about how this could possibly work! Dan Uza
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