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The origin of Greek chronometers (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



 		Keywords
sundial
Period
5th century BCE
Greek Classical Age 		Channel
Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
The Greeks learned the hemispherical sun-dial, the gnomon and the twelve parts of the day from the Babylonians.

Herodotus 2.109:
… the sunclock (polos) and the sundial (gnōmon), and the twelve divisions of the day, came to Hellas not from Egypt but from Babylonia.

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Herodotus 2.109

Bibliography

Godley 1960, I 398-399Godley, A. D. Herodotus. 4 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1960.
Pingree 1998, 130Pingree, David. “Legacies in Astronomy and Celestial Omens.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 125-137.

Amar Annus


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