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Antiquity is rarely considered to be a period typified by massive use of time-measuring instruments. The latter are often viewed as perfunctory, uninventive, or even non-existent. This comprehensive work, which summarises for the first time all available data on the topic, also challenges many generally accepted ideas. Time-measuring instruments were an integral part of habits in antiquity: the hours of the day governed numerous aspects of people’s private, as well as public, daily lives. Epigraphy and archaeology both attest to this particular need. Every city was expected to possess several public instruments –whether rudimentary or complex and monumental. Every property owner claiming even the slightest wealth had to have a sundial in his garden. These instruments, even more so than hydraulic clocks, constituted the basis of ancient “horology.”

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Book category Knihy po francúzsky HISTOIRE Antiquité

• Full title: La Mesure Du Temps Dans L'antiquite
• Author: Jerome Bonnin
• Language: French
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 444
• EAN: 9782251445090
• ID: 11157363
• Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
• Weight: 580 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 165 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. March 2015

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