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2. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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   History of timekeeping devices. A marine sandglass. It is related to the hourglass, nowadays often used symbolically to represent the concept of time. The history of timekeeping devices dates back to when ancient civilizations first observed astronomical bodies as they moved across the sky. Devices and methods for keeping time have gradually ...

3. Roman timekeeping - Wikipedia

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   The daytime canonical hours of the Catholic Church take their names from the Roman clock: the prime, terce, sext and none occur during the first (prīma) = 6 am, third (tertia) = 9 am, sixth (sexta) = 12 pm, and ninth (nōna) = 3 pm, hours of the day. The English term noon is also derived from the ninth hour. This was a period of prayer ...

4. Longitude by chronometer - Wikipedia

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   Longitude by chronometer is a method, in navigation, of determining longitude using a marine chronometer, which was developed by John Harrison during the first half of the eighteenth century. It is an astronomical method of calculating the longitude at which a position line, drawn from a sight by sextant of any celestial body, crosses the ...

5. History of sundials - Wikipedia

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   History of sundials. World's oldest known sundial, from Egypt's Valley of the Kings (c. 1500 BC), used to measure work hours. [1][2][3] A sundial is a device that indicates time by using a light spot or shadow cast by the position of the Sun on a reference scale. [4] As the Earth turns on its polar axis, the sun appears to cross the sky from ...

6. 12-hour clock - Wikipedia

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   Minutes past the hour means those minutes are added to the hour; "ten past five" means 5:10. Minutes to, 'til and of the hour mean those minutes are subtracted; "ten of five", "ten 'til five", and "ten to five" all mean 4:50. Fifteen minutes is often called a quarter hour, and thirty minutes is often known as a half hour. For example, 5:15 can ...

7. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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   The time between each gēng is 1⁄10 of a day, making a gēng 2.4 hours—or 2 hours 24 minutes—long. The 5 gēngs in the night are numbered from one to five: yì gēng (一 更) (alternately chū gēng (初更) for "initial watch"); èr gēng (二更); sān gēng (三更); sì gēng (四更); and wǔ gēng (五更). The 5 gēngs in daytime ...