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    1. Jonathan Glick‏ @jonathanglick 16 Mar 2018
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      I mean, prayers were clearly a killer use-case.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Mar 2018
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      Prayers clearly. Tied to sun for daily, moon phases for week-month, and to both for seasonal (solstices etc)

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    3. Jonathan Glick‏ @jonathanglick 16 Mar 2018
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      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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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Mar 2018
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      Hmm 5 times a day is not hourly

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    5. Jonathan Glick‏ @jonathanglick 16 Mar 2018
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      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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Mar 2018
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      Yeah but less frequent can be sun-indexed: sunrise, sunset, noon give you 3 points

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    7. Jonathan Glick‏ @jonathanglick 16 Mar 2018
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      Matins was 3am.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Mar 2018
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      Is there something I can read on Christian prayer practices? I don’t know what Matins is

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    9. Jonathan Glick‏ @jonathanglick 16 Mar 2018
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      The Rule is the basis all Christian monastic life. There’s a section on the 8 canonical ‘hours,’ which is how daily time was divided up.

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    10. Jonathan Glick‏ @jonathanglick 16 Mar 2018
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      Anyhoo, my point was just that the function of church clocks/bells was to call people to prayer *at specific hours* — a key underpinning notion was that time ‘belonged to God’ and should not be misused

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Mar 2018
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      Yes I think that’s true around the world. Timekeeping was for calls to religious duties like prayer.

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        1. Jonathan Glick‏ @jonathanglick 16 Mar 2018
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          Yeah.

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