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Babylonians invented the sundial (1)

Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
Chronometers
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.07 Chronology and hemerology
05.07.09 Chronometers
Measurements of universe
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.12 Cosmo-, urano- and geography
05.12.02 Geo- and uranographic texts
05.12.02.02 Measurements of universe

Keywords
Berossus
sundial

Period
1st century BCE
Roman Empire

Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.8.1:
Berossus the Chaldean is said to have invented the half-circle sundial cut out of a square block.

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.8.1.

Bibliography

Granger 1962, 254-255

Granger, Frank. Vitruvius on Architecture. Edited from the Harleian manuscript 2767. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1962.

Amar Annus

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