Do you know the Astrolabe? An astrolabe is an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers and navigators to measure the inclined position in the sky of a celestial body, day or night.pic.twitter.com/ykrMnlfRnd
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Do you know the Astrolabe? An astrolabe is an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers and navigators to measure the inclined position in the sky of a celestial body, day or night.pic.twitter.com/ykrMnlfRnd
#astrophisics♡ it was created by Hypatia, got a tatto with it , sextant and a verse from Robert Frost Bond and Fire when I was 17ish
And 1 puncta = 15 mins. So if i arrive within 15 mins of the agreed time I’m punctual? I’ll try that out at the next committee meeting as my excuse.
Hindu units of time mentioned in the vedas were very advanced. Vedas date back approximately to 1900BC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_units_of_time …
Hence the importance of the clock invented at the end of the Middle-Ages, until then hours did not have the same length, typically a daylight hour in the Summer was up to twice as long as one in the Winter.
So were moments longer in the summer than in the winter?
Note that the period from sunrise to sunset changes with latitude. IIRC some monasteries divided up the day in accordance with changing daylight lengths. You would have asymmetrical absolute durations of time between daylight prayers and evening.
I will now store this in long-term memory...I’ll make room by forever forgetting the name of the street I grew up on. 
Sorry! Although, that could be a “plus,” depending on your memories, which are all just momentas in time!
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