i have a pet theory that conversations with other people - including but not limited to therapy or coaching sessions - should happen in multiples of 90 minutes. 60 minutes is not enough time and i think it's a shame that we settled on 60 as the default chunk
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Is an hour a real or a madeup unit?
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that's what i wanna know! the history seems long and confusing
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yeah that was a notable step in the history from what i could see. curious about the connection to planetary hours and stuff here? like which kind of hours are intended there 🤔
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so the 12 comes from the zodiac which comes from... wait does that 12 come from number of months in a year or something to do with how the constellations are arranged or...?
- what is chaldean order
- why do some of the pieces of pizza have no toppings?
- but why chop into 12 not 10 when theres only 7 ruling planets
- cool that they used to vary in length, i want to live like that again. And also name each segment rather than number
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according to wikipedia the greeks gave the hours individual names which sounds frickin' sweet tbh. saving these ideas for writing fantasy for sure
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horae#The
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