Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in Your Hand
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In an unscientific era when maps were rarities, how did ancient Romans envisage their far flung empire? This was done by various means for certain, including with the aid of an ingenious type of portable sundial that has barely attracted notice. As the Romans understood before the first century BCE, to track the passage of the sun across the sky hour-by-hour one needed to know one's latitude and the time of year, and that, furthermore, sundials did...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0197503667
ISBN13:9780197503669
Release Date:February 2020
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"
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