The Discoverers By Daniel J Boorstin

BOOK ONE TIME Cont

Classical Conversations Timeline

Measuring the Dark Hours CH 4

Thutmose III

1500 B.C.

Invention of the hourglass

700 B.C.

Talmud Codefied the 7 day week

200 B.C.

Marcius Philips set up a sundial properly suited for Rome

164 B.C.

Seneca

4 BC - 65 AD

Martial

40 CE - 102 CE

Rome divided the day into 2 parts

300

Emperor Valentinian I

364 A.D. - 375 A.D.

Saxons used a water clock

800

Alfred the Great of England

871 - 901

Chinese aromatic clock

1073

King Alfonso X of Castile

1276

King Charles V of France

1337 - 1380

King Philip I of Spain

1478 - 1506

English law required that clocks be placed over the pulpit

1483

Girolamo Cardano

1501 - 1576

M. de Villayer used a taste clock to measure thyme

1600

Perfection of the Pendulum

1700

The Rise of the Equal Hour CH 5

Canonical hours standardized at 7

500

Minute became a division of the hour

1200

Europeans invented the first mechanical timepieces

1300

Giovani de Dondi

1318 - 1389

Hour became the modern hour

1330

Jacopo de Dondi invented a clock dial

1344

The Strasbourg clock served a calendar and aid to astrology

1350

Wells Cathedral clock

1392

People of Lyons France ask their counsil for a loud clock

1481

Quarter hours struck at wells cathedral in England

1500

Strasbourg clock rebuilt to show moveable feasts

1574

Clocks had a 2nd hand

1670

Duke of Orleans installed the cannon clock in Palais Royal Garden

1786

Making TIme Portable CH 6

Brunelleschi made a spring driven clock

1410

Galileo Galilei

1564 - 1642

English Backstaff invented by John Davis

1595

King Philip III offered 10,000 ducats for a solution to the longitude problem

1604

Christiaan Huygens

1629 - 1695

Robert Hooke

1635 - 1703

Hooke conjectured about a spring clock

1658

Royal Society founded with Hooke at the helm

1662

Hooke's Micrographia

1665

Will Clement made an anchor escapement clock

1671

Huygens beat Hooke to the punch

1674

John Harrison

1693 - 1776

English fleet foundered on the rocks at Sicily

1707

Parliament now offered money

1714

John Harrison made Model No. 4

1761