[Mid] Re: Event timetables - bell ringing

>>There isn't any reason why some research on different time keeping
devices couldn't be done.

I am doing research on period time keeping and "SCA Time" is period.
Clocks were not very accurate until the mid-1600s.

The largest ever period of sundial making was in the mid-14th century
when clock towers started appearing. Most Medieval clocks lost several
hours every day. They were only good to 15 - 30 minutes at any time.
Each day the mechanical clock would have to be set to the sundial. Due
to the wood and metal mechanisms of a mechanical clock, keeping it
running was a full time job. Not until the introduction of the spring
driven clock in the early 1500s did clocks routinely have a minute hand.

In 1656, Christiaan Huygens made the first pendulum clock. Although
Galileo studied the pendulum's motion as early as 1582, Galileo's design
for a clock was not built before his death. After many years of
refinement Huygens clock lost only one minute a day. Not until 1721 was
a clock good to 1 second a day.

Want to know why clockwise is clockwise? On a sunny day go out and
watch your shadow a few times throughout the day. With your back to the
sun, your shadow is to your left in the morning, in front of you in at
noon and to your right in the evening, hence clockwise. (This only
works in the northern hemisphere and only all the time if you're north
of the Tropic of Cancer).

Yes I have more trivial time keeping information.

In service,

Herr Maximilian der Zauberer

From: Bob Scheltema <BScheltema@kukausa.com>
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Received on Mon Nov 15 11:55:21 1999