Question for you: which came first? Prayers at specific times of day or accurate clocks? (I’ve always wondered)
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Replying to @jonathanglick @vgr
I mean, prayers were clearly a killer use-case.
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Replying to @jonathanglick
Prayers clearly. Tied to sun for daily, moon phases for week-month, and to both for seasonal (solstices etc)
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Replying to @vgr
So the need to perform hourly-timed prayers was a driving force in clock tech? (First mechanical clocks were probably Muslim.)
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Replying to @vgr
No, I mean, you’re supposed to do them at particular hours. :) that’s why monks (for eg.) cared so much about clocks.
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Replying to @jonathanglick
Yeah but less frequent can be sun-indexed: sunrise, sunset, noon give you 3 points
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Replying to @jonathanglick
Is there something I can read on Christian prayer practices? I don’t know what Matins is
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